Sunday 5 August 2007, 17.00

Set in the not-so-distant future POLLY II - Plan for a Revolution in the Docklands – part satirical sci-fi, part soap opera and Brechtian ‘Lehrstueck’ – portrays the lives of pirates and outcasts surviving in the flooded ruins of East London, a lawless zone set to become the latest in luxury waterside living according to government plans and venturing developers’ wet dreams. The film imagines a future insurrection coloured by the legacy of dispossessed peasants, political radicals, whores, sailors, pirates, and former slaves who once inhabited East London and fought a daily battle against their subjection to poverty, displacement and judicial terror.The screening is introduced by the director Anja Kirschner. Total programme duration 60 minutes.

Anja Kirschner, UK 2006, 30 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Global Cities exhibition