At Home in Hackney: Estate, A Reverie + After Time

After the screening we'll be joined for a Q&A by Estate directors Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Therese Henningsen.

Screening alongside the 'At Home in Hackney' photography exhibition, all of the films in this programme celebrate representations of the borough of Hackney on screen, from independent documentaries and short films, to Hollywood blockbusters, all using Hackney as a filming location.

Estate, A Reverie, Dir. Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 83min, 2015

The passing of Hackney’s Haggerston Estate after 70 years is given poetic expression in A Reverie. Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film explores the death of a utopian dream, the reconfiguration of East London’s landscape, and a group of people who refuse to be defined by economic or social brackets, even acting out stories from the past to keep the spirit alive.

After Time, Dir. Therese Henningsen, 34min, 2023

Throughout June 2022 The Lock-In, Stanley Schtinter's 96 hour edit of all the scenes shot inside BBC soap opera EastEnders' Queen Vic pub (1985-1995), played on the television screens of ten 'real' pubs across London's East End. Filmed only on the occasion of these screenings, After Time documents the people and pubs that survive - and thrive - in East London today.

'At Home in Hackney' is a collaboration between Hackney Museum, East London Photographers Collective and East End Archive. See the exhibition for free at Hackney Museum and Hackney Picturehouse.