SILVERTOWN (2018) | Short film

Silvertown (2018) is a hypnotic journey through the drastically changing landscapes of the London docklands. Using the idea of a dock as a floating axis, the film embarks on a psycho-geographical exploration of both under and over-ground terrains. The camera intimately searches for meaning: Lexical forms of representation found in traces of materials and human history. But very few words are indeed spoken and the objects, materials and people seem to live a silenced existence. The docks were formed by the hands of migrant labourers, they became centres of commerce and were later abandoned. They became the sites of airports, exchanges of a vertical axis from the depths of the underground.

Silvertown is an audio-visual collaboration between filmmaker Katya Lachowicz and sound artist Clelia Patrono. 

 

Headphones recommended. 

 

See a preview of the work at the Hyper-Reality & Anthropology screening on 7th December 2018. Registration on Eventbrite or Facebook. Update: Tickets are now sold out, please do not hesitate to send me an e-mail for the link and password for online viewing if it is password protected at any time (see link below).

Silvertown (2018) Trailer from Katya Lachowicz on Vimeo.

SILVERTOWN from Katya Lachowicz on Vimeo.