The Games
Produced by Hilary Powell, Optimistic Productions
The Games is a 15 minute film made in February 2007 involved staging a surreal alternative Olympic Games amid the sites (from junkyards and allotments to Clays Lane estate) now demolished and enclosed by the blue hoardings. Originally commissioned by URBIS it has screened widely and is now in the BFI National Archives. It highlights the diverse sites and communities of this contested urban space in a thought provoking and humorous way drawing on the history of the Olympic movement and most particularly the DIY approach and aesthetic of the 1948 London Olympics.
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