Elephant and Castle - A Changing Landscape

Siobhan Davies Dance host an afternoon of film screenings that show the changing landscape at Elephant & Castle as it undergoes huge changes in the current redevelopment. Featuring Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle by Marcus Coates - part documentary, part performance, part art, part archive – the film explores major transitions in the south London neighbourhood and Home Sweet Home (2012) by Enrica Colusso. Centred around the now derelict Heygate Estate, Home Sweet Home tells a complex but intimate story of urban and social transformation, and asks: what kind of society are we building?

Vision Quest:

The film follows Coates on an unlikely suburban adventure as he sets out on a Vision Quest, seeking animal spirits to help gain insight into a possible future for the redevelopment scheme. In response to the Council’s formal vision and master plan for Elephant & Castle, Coates involves residents from the former Heygate Estate, council planners and developers to evoke an alternative collective vision of what it could be -a new kind of consultation for the Council planners.

Home Sweet Home:

Four years in the making, Home Sweet Home brings out the drama of a massive regeneration scheme unfolding in the heart of London It is also a personal journey of discovery of the city by the filmmaker. The film interrogates the changes British society has undergone since the previous regeneration in the 1960’s and finally asks what kind of society are we in the process of creating? Permeated by humour the film proposes a wider reflection on a phenomenon touching all the major cities in the world: the exclusion of the less-well-off from the city centre and their estrangement into the peripheries.