"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" Screening, New York, Oct. 3, 2004

"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" is filmmaker Ross Lipman's documentary/memoir of
the
squatting movement in England in the mid 1980s. It chronicles the lives of
the anarchists, outcasts, and punks who lived in a small enclave of
abandoned buildings south of the Thames in East London; an area known in
the anarchist community as "Squatter's Paradise". After a brief outsider
renaissance the buildings were destroyed and their dwellers dispersed; a
forgotten moment in the broadscale gentrification of Docklands
Development.

"Keep Warm, Burn Britain!" moves freely from the chaotic lives
of the squatters to the broad social canvas in which their tales unfold;
buildings and lives swept up in the sea of change that swallows cities and
time.Featuring an original score by legendary NY street musician and Academy
Award winning documentary subject THOTH!

Sunday, Oct. 3rd, at 4:00. The Oblivio Series is hosted by the Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery,
between Bleeker and Houston. Closest subways: 6 to Bleecker; F, V, Grand
Street S to Broadway-Lafayette.