Making Films Together: Film Flamme + The Basement Project Screening, Open City Documentary Festival, Close Up
3:00PM | Sat 10 May | Close-Up
This programme brings together recent work by the Marseille-based filmmaking collective, the Film Flamme association, with videos produced in East London by the community arts initiative, The Basement Project, during the 1970s.
Film Flamme is an association of filmmakers and artists formed in 1996 in Marseille. The collective has been working with local residents for over 20 years to produce 3-minute 16mm film reels accompanied by sound compositions. The introduction of digital camera workshops in 2017 has led to a further series of medium-length films, made collaboratively with the young inhabitants of the neighbourhood. This screening includes two short 16mm films produced through Film Flamme cinematographic workshops between 2019 and 2021, alongside the new medium-length work ROIKIN <3. Created following the tragic deaths of two young Marseillais, one of whom had been involved in Film Flamme workshops since the age of 11, ROIKIN <3 is both a tribute and an attempt to process, through listening and creation, the grief and trauma of the event.
Led by Maggie Pinhorn, The Basement Project collaborated with teenagers from Tower Hamlets and Hackney to create a series of videos reflecting their experiences growing up in the East End of the 1970s. The project emerged from the production of the now-seminal Tunde’s Film, which follows the eponymous Tunde Ikoli and his pals Colin, Micky, and Taploe as they struggle to find work on the streets of pre-developed Tower Hamlets. Penniless and constantly harassed by the police, the boys decide to cut their losses and rob a bank. Alongside Tunde’s Film, the London Community Video Archive will present a compilation of recently digitised video experiments made by The Basement Project.
Presented by Annabelle Aventurin and Ed Webb-Ingall and followed by a conversation with Matti Sutcliffe.
Tunde’s Film
Tunde Ikoli and Maggie Pinhorn | 1974 | UK | 40’ | Digital | English spoken
+ After Tunde’s Film: A compilation of recently digitised video experiments made by The Basement Project in the 1970s, selected by The London Community Video Archive
LES MINOTS DE MASSABO
Ateliers cinématographiques Film Flamme | 2019/2020 | France | 8’ | Digital | French spoken, English Subtitles
LES ETOILES DE MASSABO
Ateliers cinématographiques Film Flamme | 2021 | France | 7’ | Digital | French spoken, English Subtitles
ROIKIN <3
Ateliers cinématographiques Film Flamme | 2025 | France | 43’ | Digital | French spoken, English Subtitles
The London Community Video Archive and Film Flamme will also be hosting a workshop at the festival. Details and tickets are available here.
