Homage to Eli Hall, Hackney Siege Chistmas 2002/3.
This is a performative film dealing with the imposibilities/benefits of using film as a form of
documentation of a performance that was simply the act of being inside the destroyed/burned
house where Eli Hall resisted the preassure of the police.
Looking at the residues as having some potentiality even if they are just aesthetic. Conciously using the situation as a pretext for making a work.
The use of the kind of stock is important as it is already
positive ( reversal film), just one roll of 100 feet to see Eli's Legacy. Using film and its background ( commitment and cutting edge), Specters of
Resistance can be an impossible task of dealing with the inexistent, reflected in the use of the materials (16mm film, cheap mysticisim, fanatism, and fetishism, in this case an already charged place).

More info on the Hackney Siege:

'Run, Eli, Run!' - Notes On The Hackney Siege
by Matthew Hyland and Jamie King

The Regeneration Siege in Central Hackney
by The London Particular