Squatting in London, short documentary
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This short documentary is an university project from the FdA Media Practice course in LCC, University of Arts of London.
You may have already hear about squatters in the media, now please listen to them tell you who they are and get to know both sides.
The documentary is set around a squat and it's inhabitants, this squat in particular is a gallery open for the public with information and art about squatting.
We apologize to Xoan, we got his name wrong and he is titled in the documentary as Sudan.
Music:
- "Rapid Eye Movement", by Two Steps From Hell (CD: Dreams & Imaginations).
- "Our House", by Madness.
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I lived in a few squats in my late twenties but that was before squatting was made into a criminal offense. It's great to see people getting together and setting up homes and community from empty properties. This is a great contribution to a very materialistic society. There's nothing unlawful about needing a roof over your head, it's not a luxury it's a necessity! Keep doing what you're doing, you're all fab!
Nobody in the history of mankind have ever had the right to a roof over their head. People either built their homes or paid for someone else's labour to build one for them. If someone dons't want to do either of those options they have no right to a roof over their head and CERTAINLY no right to take a roof off someone else who has paid for one.
That roof that you call right, had to be made by a company that in turn had to pay workers. If you think that the sacrifice of others is worth nothing, then you have a problem in your head.
@@mrdojob : In Cornwall, if you could build a ‘dwelling’ witching one day, it was yours.
Very nice project, the world needs pepole like you, good luck with squatting :)
Me neither, but my opinion is not to dich the system but change it so it serves the citizens needs. We are social beings and we need a society.
Also, this people were not living apart from society completely as they were very involve in politics and had a social program going on. From what I talked with them I would say they are not against society in general, just how ours works right now.
Thank you for your comment!
Power to the squatters , if they are doing no harm and no damage to the buildings they are living in then why not leave them alone.....!!!
Because it belongs to someone else,
i have lived in many squats it was my only option and on the one hand it can be very scary but on the other i met some very good friends , them scum that skim public taxes and pass laws against the most vulnerable members of our society are the true criminals that have no humanity and their judgment shall be truly HELL
STAY BLESSED ALL YOU MEEK AND HUMBLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS :)
Squat if you're going to squat but don't act like it is the moral thing to do. Don't pretend that you are entitled to housing. You own your own labor and are entitled to the fruits of your labor. No one should prohibit you from accessing housing but no one must provide you with housing.
Likewise, you are entitled to the fruits of your labor. You use those fruits to buy a house. You own the house. You can use, transfer, destroy, exclude others from the house. That is call ownership. You violate someone's right to exclude when you squat. It is immoral and should be criminalized. Such entitled people, "I don't wanna work just to buy a house." Okay, then live in the woods.
Then, the kicker is they hate materialism and capitalism but they are leeching off of it.
Exactly. They act like materialism is the scourge of the planet yet property is the ultimate materialism. All that wood, brick, copper, cables, concrete, plaster, glass. Tons and tons of it all assembled by skilled craftsman.
No house is free. It takes about 2500 skilled man hours to build a house and these squatters want those tradesmen to build them for free. They want free everything but when asked to leave a property they all of a sudden have "ownership" of it and refuse to leave themselves. Ownership only applies to squatters when it suits them. If someone else owns a property then they don't give a shit if the actual owner want's to use and intentionally deprive that person of the warmth and shelter they paid for but when asked to leave someones property they apparently have a right to live in it and use it themselves and exclude the actual property owner.
Any squatter worth their salt will never exclude the owner from entering their property.
We can't give you affordable shelter because vacant houses help drive the prices up. This will make you work 2x as much...increasing our profits.
Its silly to argue that you think a complete innocent stranger owes you a squatter because they have an empty property. Its ridiculous, they want to dissociate themselves from consumerist society but expect the benefits or surplus from that consumerist society to survive. Although I believe its a basic human right they shouldn't think it entitles them to do fuck all work (which seemed the case for a few)
Yay! for squatters! If I was over there, I'd love to visit.
Glad you liked it, good luck with your squat and you community project. I hope the people over there enjoy it too :)
great video, its important to educate people of the socially marginalised. As for the Claira I sympathise immensely for her situation. I showed some friends who scoffed at her for living in a squat and being an art graduate.. its sad times we live in that we take sadistic pleasure at the misfortune of others in order to reinforce our egos. As for the Spanish students I completely agree with their analysis but I don't have the courage to not take part in the system.
I am planning a project for "Architecture for the poor" inspired by Hasan Fathy and perhaps contribute to a solution for low-cost public housing as part of my MA degree. My wholehearted support to you all
the girl with glasses said she squats because she doesn't want to work.
she said she didnt want to work all day to barely afford rent. As in she doesn't want to work fulltime and work herself to the bone just to live. We shouldn't have to do that.
@@HomemakerDaze Why not? Every other generation done it before. A house takes about 2500 skilled man hours to build. Houses are hard work to build and expensive to pay others to build.
Why does property rights only apply to squatters when it suits themselves? A squatter has no qualms about depriving a house owner of their shelter and warmth but when the owner wants to kick them out the squatters all of a sudden have property rights and refuse to leave. Doesn't the refusal to leave means people have property rights?
i'm not kidding. in 5 years my son will be 18 and he can come with me or do his own thing, but i am doing this!!!! have done in the US, SF/Bay area/1980's+ punk scene squatting for years etc. :) i'm interviewed in the book by silke tudor and jack 'gimme something better' about squatting in the 80's. so i am going to save my sheckels and make a plan!
the woman that said she dont wana work a shitty job jus so she can pay her rent..blah blah blah.......Get real! The rest of the world work shitty jobs, n save like crazy to buy property n jus cos there not at the property for a few months ppl like you break in n live there.
dnt get me wrong guys, if some one is actually homeless for a good reason n needs a place to crash i get it n would support them, but not someone that jus dnt wana pay rent.
That;s what squatters are like. They don't want to build a house or work so they can pay someone else to build a house so they just steal them.
Big love to you all
it is not, and never has been legal to squat a property which is lived in or has obvious signs of ownership. the idea that someone can squat 'your house' is myth.
You see common scene. If there is an empty space fill it so it's useful again. The lovely irony is this is so in the spirit of David Cameron's big society. Non conformists are very important, they might make Daily Mail readers cross but they do make people think, it would be a worse world with out them.
Will someone PLEASE take out these bums
oh man. i am on my way.
2:30 typical squatter....private school educated student with rich parents who wants to be a rebel. I have never seen a squatter who wasnt a well spoken middle class hippie, who CHOOSES to be homeless and when they get fed up they go back to their parents' huge house in the leafy suburbs.. The genuine homeless people tend to be living in emergency accomodation or a council house. The squatters are not genuine homeless people.
Im an artist, but i work a shitty job, n my art has become part time...but id rather do that n pay rent, rather than live in someone else's home that they've worked hard for.
this is boss.
please do your research. look at the occupations of abandonned army camps after the second world war, the activities of harry cowley in brighton and the notting hill peoples association, to name just a few.
if you have only met squatters who are middle class hippies, then that is obviously your milieu.
Abandon government buildings are OK to squat in. Private buildings are not OK.
Creepy Cyclist Advert, forced me not to watch this Clip,