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Join Forensic Architecture for a screening of Situated Testimonies of Grenfell (2024), a collaborative film that weaves together interconnected stories of the night of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, from the perspectives of survivors, bereaved families and witnesses.
The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was a generational tragedy for London and the UK, resulting in the loss of 72 lives. As the campaign for justice and accountability continues, this screening and discussion series seeks to reexamine Forensic Architecture’s investigative and documentary approach to the Grenfell case, and to bring the experiences of survivors of the fire into conversation with some of the broader social and political failures that that exacerbated the horrific event.
Forensic Architecture’s film, Situated Testimonies of Grenfell (2024), offers a multi-perspectival account of these failures, while foregrounding the lived experience, memory, and resilience of the Grenfell community. Eleven individuals affected by the fire – residents of Grenfell, bereaved family members, and residents of the local area – collaborated with researchers from Forensic Architecture to tell their stories through interaction with a 3D digital model of the tower and its surrounding environment, reconstructing their former homes and the events of the night as they remembered them. The 60-minute film is both a work of collective remembrance and a vital body of evidence in the ongoing pursuit of accountability and justice for victims and survivors.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Nicole Halova (Video Editor) and Nicholas Masterton (Researcher, Forensic Architecture), moderated by Elizabeth Breiner (Head of Programmes, Forensic Architecture), focused on the process of collaborating with affected communities and the application of alternative documentary practices in pursuit of accountability.
About Forensic Architecture:
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations committed by states, police, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society—grassroots activists, legal teams, international NGOs, and media organisations—to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes, and environmental violence. FA’s investigations employ pioneering techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modelling, and situated interviewing. Findings have been presented in international courtrooms, parliamentary inquiries, citizen’s tribunals, exhibitions at leading cultural institutions, and across international media.
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Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings.
Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings.