Event overview
Join us for a viewing of films and a discussion with contributors and producers of Albany Video, hosted by London Community Video Archive and chaired by Ed Webb-Ingall.
Albany Video was founded in the early 1970s. It was a community video project based in The Albany that equipped communities with the skills and equipment to make documentary films about topics relevant to their lives. The films of Albany Video form a document of Deptford and South East London from the perspective of those who lived there.
During this event, Past Albany Video contributors and producers will showcase their films. Geoff Stow worked at Albany Video (AV) from the 1970s through to the late ‘80s. His films include a document of an adventure playground in Childers St Deptford; and a documetnary about Downham, ‘A Home in the Country’. Carol Stevens worked for Albany Video in the early 1980s and produced ‘A Netful of Holes’, about young women and homelessness. Carol Jacobs was with Albany Video in the late 1980s and produced a a programme called ‘Step Forward’, for Channel 4 about the Black music scene centred around South London. Pax Nindi worked as a volunteer with AV in the late 1980s and when AV folded, set up Paxvision - a video facility at the Albany.
The talk will be chaired by Ed Webb-Ingall, who organises the public programme for LCVA. He is a filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. He collaborates with groups to explore under-represented historical moments and their relationship to contemporary life, developing modes of self-representation specific to the subject or the experiences of the participants. Tony Dowmunt co-directs the London Community Video Archive. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, co-supervising Practice Research PhDs, mostly in the field of radical and 'alternative' documentary practices.
We invite people to come for the day to share an intergenerational conversation around self-organising in the borough in the past and today.
There will be a BSL interpreter and print-outs available. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible, with an accessible and gender neutral toilet.
Free to attend, all welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2023 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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