LIFT + DOAR ALBI ÎN BARKING / LIFT + ALL WHITE IN BARKING

LIFT

Directed by: Marc Isaacs

Documentary – United Kingdom – 2001 – 24 min

Section: Focus Marc Isaacs

When filmmaker Marc Isaacs decided to make a documentary about a lift in a London tower block he had no idea how the residents would react and what they would reveal of their lives. He simply set himself up in the lift with his camera and waited for the right moment to ask questions. The result is both humorous and moving. The whole of British society is captured in this microcosm and the simplest of approaches becomes a parable of multiculturalism.

ALL WHITE IN BARKING

Directed by: Marc Isaacs

Documentary – United Kingdom – 2007 – 73 min

Section: Focus Marc Isaacs

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs examines with charm and humour modern attitudes towards race in Barking, a white working class town to the East of London. Through the lives of five key characters from different ethnic backgrounds, Isaacs, a prominent but unseen presence, questions prejudices, and pries at preconceptions with remarkable results.