I WILL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE

Short film exploring the haunting legacy of the A12 road in East London where over 300 houses were demolished in the 1990s. The film interweaves archive footage and photos with fresh audio and video material merging personal and collective memory. Fragmented recorded voices of former residents (radio transmissions garnered from the decaying remnants of a local art installation) fuse with electromagnetic field recordings and snippets of Konstantin Raudive's Voices of the Dead. Taking its name from the protestors’ slogan on the final house to be demolished and the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, I Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine summons spectral voices and residual energy from the landscape to confront the motorway.

Single channel video, stereo sound, 16.21 mins, 2019

Stills from film, 2019