The first director to be shortlisted for both the Grierson and Jarman Awards, the work of filmmaker, artist and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman presents tender portraits of community and solidarity, exhibiting sentiments almost entirely missing from our contemporary political vocabulary.
This 2-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition includes her multi-award-winning feature-length films, Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013), Estate, a Reverie (2015), Erase and Forget (2017) and Here for Life (2019), plus a selection of her acclaimed shorts and documentary works.
The set also includes a 48-page booklet with essays by So Mayer and Ali Smith, plus writing by Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
Features:
• Taskafa, Stories of the Street (2013)
• Estate, a Reverie (2015)
• Erase and Forget (2017)
• Here for Life (2019)
Shorts:
• I am here (by Sogand Bahram) (2009)
• More Utopias Now! (2017)
• Birdboy and the General (2021)
• Art Class (2020)
• Merzschmerz (2021) - four short films:
- Good Man
- Lucky Hans
- The Flying Fish
- Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse
• Shelter in Place (2021)
• Civil Rites (2017)
• Therese (Here for Life: behind scenes in Brixton) (2019)
• Wayfaring Stranger song (2024)
• Balamuc Gelem Gelem song (2024)
• Sounding The Voices (2022)
EXTRAS:
• Two-disc Blu-ray Special Edition.
• Presented from HD transfers approved by the director.
• Appreciations by curator Gareth Evans and filmmaker Penny Woolcock.
• Teasers and Trailers.
• 48-page booklet featuring a new essay by writer/curator So Mayer, Ali Smith on Andrea Luka Zimmerman, and writing by the filmmaker.
• Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-rays.
