This screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the fim curator Gareth Evans & the filmmakers.

Following on from his Hackney History Festival 2026 talk about Hackney film locations (Sunday 10 May, 1pm), film curator and producer Gareth Evans hosts an evening of acclaimed artists' films made in Hackney across the last 50 years by some of the UK's leading experimental film-makers.

Moving from John Smith's Hackney Marshes - November 4th 1977 to Emily Richardson's Hackney Wick-focused Memo Mori and Andrew Kotting's canal-engined Swandown / Bunhill Fields Artefact, the programme makes its way through the borough on a pilgrimage of memory, recovery, lives lived and places lost. It arrives in Beck Road for Frances Scott's nine nine nine nine nine and concludes in Haggerston Park with Andrea Luka Zimmerman's pandemic portrait Shelter in Place.

All the filmmakers will be present and in conversation with Evans after the screening. The evening also marks the launch of a special publication, Lines of the Hand, responding to the films, written by Evans and commissioned / published by Haggerston's Burley Fisher Books, as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations. It will be available for purchase tonight.

With thanks to all the artists, and to Emma Cheung, Sam Fisher and Corinne O'Sullivan. Programmed in association with Burley Fisher Books and Hackney History Festival

https://burleyfisherbooks.com/

https://hackneyhistoryfestival.org/