This film joins a group of retired Anglo-Indians at St. Chad’s Catholic Church Hall in South London, at a time when questions concerning belonging and nationalism are at their peak. It explores their place-making in post-Brexit-vote Britain, amidst a chaos of bingo, eating and a lot of dancing.
Ellen Lapper
Ellen Lapper is a British-born visual anthropologist, artist, and researcher exploring different mediums to move away from traditional text-based research. Ellen largely engages in participatory projects and is currently pursuing two research topics: widening the discussion on colonised peoples by challenging homogenised and racialised ideologies of British identity; and the digital afterlife, published under How has social media changed the way we grieve? Her films have been shown in various locations (UN Geneva, Chicago Ethnographic Film Festival, FACA Lisbon) with her work on post-colonialism contributing to the 2019 RAI Film Festival and Forecast Forum Berlin 2019. She also works as a writer and translator from German to English in the fields of contemporary art and anthropology.