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Beyond Animation 2023
Filmstill Blight
Blight
John Smith
A rhythmic collage of sounds and film images accompanies the demolition of a house in East London and becomes a protest piece against the motorway network that destroys the neighbourhood.
Filmstill Blight

Blight

Blight
John Smith
Beyond Animation 2023
Experimental Film
UK
1996
15 minutes
English

A rhythmic collage of sounds and filmed sequences accompanies the demolition of a house. People from a neighbourhood in East London report in interview fragments: The living conditions were not comfortable – ugh, those spiders! – but the families had a home that had grown over generations. Now the community protests against being squeezed out by a motorway network.

André Eckardt

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Director
John Smith
Script
John Smith
Cinematographer
John Smith
Editor
John Smith
Sound
John Smith
Score
Jocelyn Pook