Blu-Ray BD50 x 2 / 1080p / 24fps
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RRP: £29.99
Release Date: 02 December 2024
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A selection of vital works from filmmaker, artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman, the first director to be shortlisted for both the Grierson and Jarman Awards. Situated between documentary and fiction, these films challenge political and structural injustice, working with marginal communities to assert our shared humanity.
This 2-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition includes their multi-award-winning feature-length films, Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013), Estate, a Reverie (2015), Erase and Forget (2017) and Here for Life (2019), plus a selection of their acclaimed shorts and documentary works. The set also includes appreciations by curator Gareth Evans and filmmaker Penny Woolcock, plus a 48-page booklet with essays by So Mayer and Ali Smith, plus writing by Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
The set contains the following films:
Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (2013) / Estate, a Reverie (2015) /
Erase and Forget (2017) / Here for Life (2019)
Shorts: I am here (by Sogand Bahram, 2009-2013) / Birdboy and the General (2014) / Merzschmerz (2014) - four short films: Good Man; Lucky Hans; The Flying Fish; Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse / More Utopias Now! (2017) / Civil Rites (2017) / Here for Life: behind the scenes (2019) / Art Class (2020) / Shelter in Place (2021) / Wayfaring Stranger song (2023) / Balamuc Gelem Gelem song (2023) / Sounding The Voices (2022)
• Two-disc, multi-film Special Edition Blu-ray.
• Presented from new HD transfers supervised and approved by Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
• On the Films of Andrea Luka Zimmerman: Appreciations by curator Gareth Evans and filmmaker Penny Woolcock.
• Teasers and Trailers.
• 48-page booklet featuring essays by writer/curator So Mayer and author Ali Smith; Andrea Luka Zimmerman and co-director Adrian Jackson on the making of 'Here for Life', plus writing by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and John Berger.
• World premieres on Blu-ray.
• Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-rays.
Taşkafa: Stories of the Street
Filmed and directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Readings from ‘King’ by John Berger
Text and voiced by John Berger
Editor - Alper Şen
Estate, a Reverie
Directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Filmed by Taina Galis, Lasse Johansson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Written by Adam Rosenthal, Gareth Evans, David Roberts
Editor - Ariadna Fatjó-Vilas
Here for Life
A film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson
Produced by ARTANGEL
Cinematography - Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Editor - Grant Gee
with Jo Galbraith, Jake Goode, Richard Honeyghan
Erase and Forget
Directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Written and photographed by Taina Galis, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Editor - Taina Galis
Music - Adam Paroussos
with Bo Gritz, Ted Kotcheff
Awards
2015 Jarman Award / Shortlisted
2016 Grierson Awards / Nominated: Best Newcomer
2016 Aesthetica Arts Prize / Shortlisted
2019 Locarno Film Festival / Special Mention
2020 Palmares Festival De Cinema En Ville / Winner: First Prize
2020 Jarman Award / Winner
“Known for their filmic explorations of class, precarity and social justice, Andrea Luka Zimmerman calls for a profound
re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology” International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
“Their eye for process over time, and her practice of honouring process - the process is the act of witness, in the act of recording - is a humanising act and an expansive meditative gift” Ali Smith
Taşkafa, Stories of the Street
“A work as profound as it is protesting” Sukhdev Sandhu,
Sight and Sound Critic’s Choice, Best Films of 2013
Estate, a Reverie
“A deeply moving portrait of a community struggling to survive in a boarded-up London public housing project... A dreamlike lost-world of misfits, outcasts and survivors whom she films with love and aching tenderness. A lyrical and gripping vision of the loneliness and disempowerment that haunts life even in the world’s wealthiest cities” Joshua Oppenheimer
“Poignant, and real, felt and important… a paean to survival, dignity, solidarity and community” Uriel Orlow
“An extraordinary film... both profound and original. Her tender portrait exhibits deep feelings of community and solidarity” Ken Worpole
“An enthralling and uplifting celebration of the resilience of humanity in flux” Andrew Kotting
Erase and Forget
“Like a Lynchian nightmare of right-wing America” Total Film
“This is a new way to make a documentary, exploiting the bountiful public record of the Internet age.It captures how Gritz anticipated the insanity of today. At the time, Gritz’s actions seemed laughable, but in the age of the ultimate trumped up reality showman (namely Donald Trump), they seem like an early version of the virus that ate our sanity” Variety
“Defiance, depression, delusion: Erase and Forget touches on
all these ideas, showing how the fog of war can spin into a mental disease” The Observer
“Zimmerman marshals the material... with relentlessly thought-provoking confidence. disconcerting documentary, which also doubles as an insight into the American mindset that led to the election of Donald Trump shrewd use of rare archive footage” Empire Magazine
“Gripping and jaw-dropping, it's a documentary that needs to be seen to be believed” Morning Star
Here for Life
“A film of great compassion and political and aesthetic ambition, in which the idea of a collective is prioritised for a change, but without sacrificing or downplaying the individual voices and idiosyncracies that it comprises” Sight and Sound
“[An] extraordinary exploration of London life... It’s not to be missed” Time Out
“An outstanding collective cinematic achievement. With its contagious rhythm, enthusiastic approach and generous love, the jury has decided to give the Feature Film Award to Here
for Life” Film Festival du Cinema en Ville 2020
