Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City
Shorts offering a snapshot of modern Britain are on at Hackney Picturehouse, the Ace Hotel and the Round Chapel in Lower Clapton
Valerie Brandes is the ‘Hackney girl’ publishing unheard voices ‘as cosmopolitan as our city’
Two authors spent a weekend in a Hackney square and wrote down everything they saw there in homage to an experiment by French writer Georges Perec
Two car thieves make an unusual discovery in short film starring Charley Palmer Rothwell and This is England’s Thomas Turgoose
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
Joan Littlewood’s only foray into film, this knotty East End romance starring Barbara Windsor – with a cameo from The Krays – has been newly restored
Films about sex work and related issues such as migration, race, gender and violence to be screened this weekend at the Rio Cinema
Bee Rowlatt embarked on a full-blown love affair by tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s journey across Scandinavia
East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe
Short films about dating culture and a boy’s religious struggles provide diverse portraits of the East for this year’s BFI extravaganza
