‘The man dem will not be pacified’
Cla’am is a dark comic short about gentrification in South London – Carl from your office’s ‘edgiest’ hipster favourites- Peckham, Brixton and Clapham
Essentially it’s 15 minutes of a Schizophrenic dashing around familiar neighbourhoods and noting a sharp increase in trendy new coffee shops while searching for his missing friend JJ. Nathaniel Martello-White manages to parody London’s obsession with coffee to manic proportions. It’s everywhere, everything and everyone.
Cla’am does cleverly pack a lot into quarter of an hour without being too serious- Pricing locals out of their own homes, cultural modifications and all your best friends moving to Kent.
The short -Nathaniel Martello White’s debut- screened at SXSW and won best UK Short Film at the Raindance Festival this year
Watching it reminded me that I wanted to do a series of pieces on gentrification in Peckham as I’ve seen it over the past few years. Will I ever have time? Will I ever…..
I found this short about Peckham Rye’s changing face interesting as well- Ordinary Streets, LSE Cities
Cla’am on BBC IPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05hvlb1/claam
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Sounds interesting! Will check it out 🙂 Moving to Kent is a real threat at the moment
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worth a watch- especially if you live round there, you can probably spot the new coffee shops yourself!
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