Bedrooms of London – Spring 2019 at the Foundling Museum

SPRING 2019 AT THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

A season of three films chosen to complement the Bedrooms of London exhibition, featuring photographs of bedrooms of children living below the poverty line in London.

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Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009):

British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank,about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister on an Essex Council estate. Mia’s adolescent conflicts reach a boiling point when her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) enters the picture.

Followed by a panel discussion with:

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The Florida Project (Baker, 2017):

Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother Halley over the course of a single summer. 

Followed by a panel discussion with:

  • Helen De Witt, Associate Lecturer in Film and Media, Birkbeck and University of the Arts London; Programme Advisor BFI London Film Festival
  • Laurence Guiness, Chief Executive, The Childhood Trust
  • Roslyn Law, Consultant Clinical Pscyhologist, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

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Leave No Trace (Granik, 2018)

Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon.  A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking independence and forces them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart.
 
Followed by a panel discussion with: