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TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND – full film

Here is the full version of the film TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND directed by Gillian McIver, about Nazir Tanbouli’s Kingsland Project, the biggest solo street art prioject in London to date.

Full credits are on http://www.kingslandmural.co.uk

TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND – new short trailer and Cast/Crew Screening

WE DEVELOPED A NEW SHORTER TRAILER FOR THE FILM.

we had the film’s cast/crew screening party at Dalston Social with terrific live music by Lion Tribe and art by KROM

 

TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND

During the whole project The King’s Land the process of creating murals over an entire derelict housing estate was being documented by film and photography.

The film, TAKING OVER THE KING’S LAND  (running time 23:00) is complete and is being released by New Reel Films. It’s being submitted to festivals at present. For more about the film, click on the menu above.

Here’s the trailer:

Taking Over the King’s Land  on Vimeo.

There will also be a short book published by Studio75 to accompany the film, coming out in late 2013.

Nazir Tanbouli’s blog

Hi all. While I was doing the King’s Land – now finished but still available for view (see map for details) I stopped writing in my personal blog. But now I have gone back to it and am featuring new work and more.

Please see http://nazirtanbouli.wordpress.com/ for my blog “Nazir Tanbouli | An Egyptian artist in London.”

The King’s Land in The Urban Snap

The Urban Snap street art blogger has been following the King’s Land since its early days and he paid a visit to the site the other day.

NAZIR TANBOULI by THE URBAN SNAP  © 2012 The Urban Snap – London’s Finest Street Art

THE KING’S LAND on BBC International

Here is the link: http://youtu.be/3BLb-CrsrWc

A few months back the BBC sent a crew to film the King’s Land and Studio75, and interview me. (read about it here). Well the film is finally out.

As part of the London Calling season, BBC World Service has been discovering some of the quirkier areas of the Olympic city. In this episode Selin Girit from BBC Turkish explores Dalston in the east of the city. Actually Studio75 is on the border right between Shoreditch and Dalston and so we qualified for both episodes (Shoreditch one here) but we got to be in the Dalston one; Dalston’s just north of us, which the BBC is calling the “hippest place in London”.

It’s pretty cool to be “representing” London internationally like this. Anyway, the film is nice and gives a real flavour of what it’s like around here – when the weather’s good 😉

Fait accompli – The King’s Land is finished.

I have made a mural on every building in the estate, sometimes more than one.

Some of the murals will last long – until the demolition – because they are painted.

Some will melt in the rain and disappear; rain I didn’t expect to have in such quantity, but hey – c’est la vie.

A lot of people have come – and are still coming – to see the project . If you come, pop into the studio and say hi. It’s featured as part of the Shoreditch Fringe Festival.

Many blogs and articles have followed the project, calling it “the biggest street art project by a single artist in the UK.”

I guess it is. I didn’t set out with that particular goal. I just had a whole estate in front of me and I had to see if I could really do it.

I proved that it can be done. Without any “name” or support or sponsorship. Without decent weather, even. With a lot of energy and determination and great assistants.

I have learned a lot from this project and am still working out what some of what I’ve experienced is all about. I’ll be writing these thoughts over the next few weeks, and putting up some more photos, but for now I just want to chill out in the studio and walk around the estate and look at the murals, and plan what I’ll do next.

– NAZ

An amazing time was had by all ….

Some highlights of the King’s Land Art Party. The performers:

RIGHTEOUS BAND  the Reggae Supergroup – follow them on @RighteousBand

The lyrics of the songs this Roots group were singing to us all never felt more true and beautiful than on this day! 

DIDJITALIS yes that’s right, a jazz | DJ |  didgeridoo  fusion collective, awesome!

DAVE ELVIS 

A beautiful day – even the weather was kind.

There will be more photos, and eventually video! Super-talented students and staff from SAE INSTITUTE the nearby Film and Audio-engineering school over on Kingsland Road came and helped out massively. They filmed and photographed the whole day, and even did a splendid DJ set. Thanks so much to Stefano, Lisa, Binita, Charles, Abdel, Nick and Jordan!  (NB. SAE will be doing the upcoming Shoreditch Festival so keep an eye out for some great stuff there!)

LATEST MURAL!

IT’S THE OPENING of the project today but I could not resist bloggin this photos. Last night at about 9 pm I completed the last ever King’s Land mural. It is 2 full  colour murals on upper balconies of the bricked off building. (this is just one of the 2)

These 2 were actually the first murals I did but i soon realised that the heaviness of them (acrylic on paper) would not stand up to the weather if put in an unprotected place. And for sure the weather turned out worse than anyone ever expected this season! But yesterday my good friend DJ MR TAD brought me a scaffold and so Anna and I were able to get up onto the bricked off balcony and mount these murals in a place where they’d be protected. The bricked off bit was pretty vile though, a sludge of dead rats and sewage from the broken drains, all kinds of crap we had to stand in it when we put up the murals. Will never forget that!

Ok it’s time to go off to the party. After 3 months hard labour  I’d like to say I’m gonna relax and enjoy the fruits of my labour but actually I a won’t be able to: I am booked for a gig of live drawing at the Lost Dawn club night in Kings Cross at 11 pm till 2 am. And tomorrow I have to go look at a new wall …