A squat, a camera, and zero chill about who really owns what.
A 15-minute short about squatting in London, the film sees Lebon’s signature melding of cut-and-paste graphics and animation meet disarmingly intimate camera work. Told from the perspective of both the squatter and the squatted, it explores unconventional choices and the moral grey areas found in ownership, public and private living, family and community.
Direction
Lebon's collage aesthetic collides with raw handheld intimacy.
Editing
Cut-and-paste graphics that feel illegal in the best way.
Acting
Hak Baker brings unvarnished authenticity to every frame.
Director
Frank Lebon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lebon developed this after photographing London's squatting scene for i-D magazine, translating documentary ethics into fiction without sanitizing the politics.
The entire film was shot in a real squatted building in Peckham that was demolished two weeks after wrap—no possibility of reshoots, no safety net.
US
GB
