HILARY POWELL

OPTIMISTIC

At the core of Optimistic are the practices of filmmaker and musician Dan Edelstyn and artist Hilary Powell. We have worked alongside each other since moving into a breeze block studio in Hackney Wick, East London as the London 2012 Olympic development began. We have been assistant, cinematographer, designer, actor, producer, director on each others work through this time in shared optimism and political awakening. Through our last project ‘Bank Job’ we came together to create a platform to investigate and tackle urgent economic, philosophical and social issues of our time through anarchic, joyful cultural production. We bring the community into the heart of the production process, strengthen marginal voices and bring critical issues into mainstream debate through provocative cultural action.

We believe in the subversive, radical imagination, in the power of and indeed urgent need for the surreal and comic in dark times - to open up possibilities of more just ways of organising and living when everyday life and democracy are corroded. 

We emerge from our Bank Job ( www.bankjob.pictures ) into building a -POWER STATION (www.power.film)  

Another world is possible. Pessimism of the intellect. Optimism of the will.

Optimistic Foundation is a CIC - Community Interest Company. April 30 2018. 11337743.