ITS ALL CHANGED ROUND HERE

Filmed entirely during the Covid pandemic from October 2020 – February 2021, IACRH is an experimental documentary which focuses on the district of East London, looking specifically at the current changes gentrification and globalization have had or will have on its landscape, architecture and community. The film is Jacob R Schwar’s debut, with everything including editing, photography and music done by him solely. Schwar was born in Romford near Essex, his relatives lived throughout East London specifically located in Plaistow, Poplar and East Ham in which he would visit each exhaustively during his childhood. Even from a young age he took note of a drastically changing East London, forever asking questions about the past and looking at the family photos from bygone times. Through this film Schwar attempts to observe and preserve these locations from his childhood, as well as giving his own poetic spoken word on each scenario, before they’re inevitably changed by re-generation forever. Schwar's poetry and spoken word is inspired heavily by the works and words of William S Burroughs, Genesis P Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and Jim Morrison (The Doors).