Reviews

Echoes of Forgotten Places evocatively records the places on the margins
which have been labelled as useless, consigned to dereliction and
ruination.  Here , however, they are experienced and celebrated as sites
of other-worldly beauty, places in which to linger, play and engage in
sustained spells of imaginative reverie. Evocatively filmed throughout,the
textures of ruined factories and storehouses are conjured up,
contextualised by footage of their former industrial use, and discussed by
the academics, film-makers and artists who are drawn to these shadowy
domains. We are given a powerful sense of the continuing allure of these
neglected, post-industrial spaces and we meet the ghosts, sensations and
sculptural effects that emerge in the process of decay. Best of all is an
unearthly cinematic trip through a huge abandoned power station, a site
which seems to belong to a half-recognisable realm of the imagination.
Full of swirling pools of freezing water and ice circulating the encrusted
pipes and boilers, continuous drips and shimmering light effects, it
suggests itself as a wondrous alternative tourist attraction. This is a
moving and beautiful work.

Tim Edensor, author of Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality
(Berg, 2005)