Unmoored (2025)

Unmoored is an experimental documentary exploring life along London’s River Lea, tracing the tensions between movement, belonging, and instability within a constantly shifting urban landscape. Focusing on canal communities and itinerant boaters, the film examines lives shaped by a condition of continual “unmooring.” As redevelopment and rising living costs reshape London, the Lea emerges as both a refuge and a contested space. Recent regulations surrounding mooring and increased surveillance expose wider tensions around gentrification, precarity, and belonging.

Rather than presenting instability solely as loss, Unmoored explores how movement itself can foster community, resilience, and collective identity through oral testimonies, local sounds, archival footage, and observational imagery. By separating sound from image, the film creates an immersive experience that foregrounds the river’s layered history and polyphonic voices, inviting viewers to inhabit the Lea as a living, contested, and continuously re-made place.