UP Projects collaborated with author Hari Kunzru to present The Floating Cinema 2016 season Another Country. The programme explored ideas around nation, identity which had been brought into sharp focus by Brexit, and the distinctly British relationship between the city and the countryside.
The programme included screenings, talks, workshops and events which examined London as both a local and global city, its place in the world and the forces that are shaping us in the twenty-first century.
Past Events
World Cities
World Cities, 19-21 August 2016, in Hackney Wick launched with an outdoor screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing followed by Sarah Turner’s Public House and included a three day presentation of Off Shore Transactions by artist collective They Are Here on board the boat.
World Cities Green and Pleasant Land
Ghosts of Green and Pleasant Lands, 1-4 September in Granary Square, Kings Cross offered an alternative look at the history of Kings Cross and included pond swimming with artist Cath Haynes, green making and baking with the Kings Cross Skip Garden and an outdoor screening of Shane Meadow’s Somers Town which was screened right where the film was shot 10 years previously.
Swarming the Castle
Swarming the Castle, 23-25 September in Mile End Park, celebrated contemporary feminist organising in London and beyond. From Riot Grrls to punk Hijabis, feminist zines to Bollywood subversions. Workshops on how to code, or start your own punk band ran alongside screenings of 90s cult classic The Craft and Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames.
Another Country was supported by British Film Institute, Canal & River Trust, King’s Cross Central and Film London.
