As the UK entered its third national lockdown on January 4, 2021, schools and local businesses shut down, shops boarded up again, 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 cohabitation during a pandemic 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, which 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.