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Maggie Pinhorn

Archive type: Interview
Archive ID: lcva_77604
Date: 2016
Location: Unknown
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:26:21
Format: Digital file
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Maggie started her career in the film industry but, dissatisfied with it, became an early pioneer of using film and video making in the community. The first film she made with a mixed group of young people in Tower Hamlets — Tunde’s Film - was a seminal film of the period.

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00:00 Start 00:15 Growing up. School. 01:08 Going to Art School 02:23 Youth Culture & Soft Power 03:00 Getting work as a production designer 04:13 Changing my look 04:44 Meeting Ken Adam 05:21 The only woman on the crew 06:29 Becoming a film director 08:10 Tunde's Film (1973) : How it began 10:10 Tunde's Film: Community Production 14:31 The Basement Project 15:45 East End Channel One 19:04 Reflections on The Basement Project 22:35 The Product 24:17 Alternative Arts. Photomonth 25:44 In praise of community art

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Camera: Siobhan Schwartzberg
Interviewer: Zoe Kinross
Editor: Zoe Kinross
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