Losing Ground
Hosted by Commffest Global Community Film & Arts Festival on CYA Live
4.99 USD
Iqbal Barkat Losing Ground Holding Place is the story of a community that lived in a chaotic, contested and difficult situation within a public housing estate in the suburbs of a global city and yet emerged spiritually rich, generous and connected. From early 2001, The Salvation Army ran a live-in community house at 47 Ivanhoe Place in Ivanhoe Estate, a public housing community in Macquarie Park in Sydney. The community house provided support, safety and inspiration to residents and acted as a focus for wider engagement between Ivanhoe Estate and surrounding institutions until the Estate’s closure in late 2018 for redevelopment. The film is about how a social housing estate became a home for its residents – a place of safety, refuge, recognition and shared belonging that made it a successful account of place-making. Despite its success the community was eventually unable to protect itself and succumbed to redevelopment to meet the economic and planning imperatives of the state government.
Featuring commffest, Narinder Dhaliwal, Ann Marie MacDougall, Norman Hart, Rosemary Sadlier