NO PLACE BUT HERE

No Place But Here is a 360 documentary about a precarious housing occupation in an unused Cape Town hospital. In March of 2017, the social movement Reclaim the City (RTC) occupied the government-owned former Woodstock hospital, an empty building in a rapidly gentrifying pocket of Cape Town. What began as symbolic protests against the lack of social housing in the inner-city, gentrification and the continued sale of public land to commercial developers, eventually attracted hundreds of people in need of housing. The activists from Reclaim the City named the occupation after an important figure in the struggle against Apartheid: the Woodstock occupation became Cissie Gool House. This 360 documentary will immerse the viewer in the occupation, as if they were partaking in the act of reclaiming the building. The film will showcase the voices of the activists and occupiers who call Cissie Gool House home, and will also speak to those who would rather have them gone. The medium of VR will allow for a greater empathy for these characters (often demonised in the media) and will impart a deeper understanding of what it means to occupy, especially when it is the only viable option you have.