Police withdraw as fascists petrol bomb a refugee centre and the home of Vietnamese guest workers while 3000 spectators stood by and clapped. Using material filmed from inside the attacked houses and interviews with anti-fascists, the Vietnamese guest workers, police, bureaucrats, neo-nazis and residents, a story of political collusion and...

Battersea Power Station: Selling an Icon tells the story of the Power Station from its prominence as a site of industrial power through years of dereliction, speculation and planning blight to the replacement of the chimneys under the current scheme. Filmed over 15 years, Spectacle's new documentary follows the grassroots...

The film shows a range of opinions from residents and local businesses who oppose the negative impact of this insensitive and greedy plan. Spectacle has been observing and documenting the so called “regeneration” of London over the past 20 years, which has largely resulted in the displacement of local people,...

With its 6 hectares of concrete and its tower of 140 meters, the ‘Cité Administrative’ is a beautiful example of the way the theories of private architecture were applied to public buildings. Built in the 1950’s to accommodate 140,000 civil servants: The Cité Administrative was an incarnation, by its scale...

Despite the City leads us through the bizarre complexities of the electronic money and the ( successfully predicted ) market meltdown, to the untold stories of a community under threat. The tape asks, Is the meltdown of the docklands a myth? a facade covering the disempowerment of local people? Whose...

Filmed during annual INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) conference in 2000, Brussels with Riccardo Petrella, founder of the 'Lisbon Group' and one of the founders of the World Water Alternative Forum. Riccardo PETRELLA, conseiller auprès de la Commission Européenne, enseigne l'économie à l'Université Catholique de Louvain. il...

Rue Laeken, the inhabitants and local workers reflect on the gentrification of their neighbourhood, situated between the freshly renovated KVS theatre and the new National Theatre. Produced in a Spectacle/PTTL open workshop Please get in touch using our contact form if you would like to screen this film publicly. DVDs...

MK1 was conceived as a prologue for a longer film, never made, about the new town Milton Keynes. The film plots the journey from post-war optimism to the present day (1980s) when the utopian dream of the planners became a Thatcher distorted reality. Please get in touch using our contact...

Clays Lane housing co-operative, situated in the future Olympic Village in Newham, is facing an inevitable eviction. This is the story of Clays Lane residents and their claim for fair treatment. Please get in touch using our contact form if you would like to screen this film publicly.