As the UK entered its third national lockdown on January 4, 2021, life in Clapton—a rapidly diversifying and gentrifying section of East London—came to a stand-still. Confined within four walls, the concepts of home and community were rapidly redefined. This Place Called Home (2021) is a multimedia piece that documents life in a modern apartment complex, where each dwelling is its own miniature landscape. The setting is a new build, made up of eighty-nine residences, completed in 2019 as part of an urban regeneration development that includes a school. The work tells the story of a community and the surrounding neighbourhood, a microcosm of the global city, narrated by one of its residents, a precocious eleven-year-old girl, who provides a raw, unfiltered view of the new reality.
With the support of the Documentary Arts Fellowship.