Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant & Castle

Vision Quest - A Ritual for Elephant and Castle
A film by Marcus Coates
Commissioned and Produced by NOMAD


Screening dates:
9th - 25th March 2012
The Heygate Estate Ballroom
Heygate Estate
Rodney Road
London
SE17 1NA

Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is a feature-length film -- part documentary, part performance, part art - exploring the major transitions currently taking place in this south London neighbourhood. The film follows Coates on an unlikely suburban adventure as he sets out on a Vision Quest, seeking animal spirits to help gain insight into a possible future for the ongoing redevelopment scheme. In response to the Council's formal vision and master plan for Elephant and Castle, Coates involves residents from the soon to be demolished Heygate Estate, council planners and developers to evoke an alternative collective vision of what it could be, a new kind of consultation for the Council planners.

Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle is the conclusion of an ongoing residency undertaken by commissioner and producer Nomad and Marcus Coates over the last 3 years. At the centre of the film is the improvised live rock-shamanic-ritual collaboration between Coates and Chrome Hoof staged within the legendary Coronet Theatre, one of the oldest buildings in the area. Coates performs a visceral shape-shifting act supported by Chrome Hoof to mark the passing of the neighbourhood and envisage a new strategy for development, that does not repeat the mistakes of the last redevelopment in the 60's that can to epitomise inner city urban decay.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Marcus Coates
• Vision Quest
• A Ritual for Elephant & Castle
• Chrome Hoof
• nomad.org.uk
• Nomad
• NOMAD
• Michael Smythe
• Elephant & Castle
• Heygate Estate
• art
• video art
• performance art
• london

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Can't wait to see it!