Audacious, often rather beautiful comedy satirizing Riefenstahlian pomposity.
2007 · 0h 15m
In 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. Optimistic’s story began in Hackney Wick on the edges of what would become this vast regeneration site. ‘The Games’ (2007) was a short film that staged a DIY Olympics amid the sites soon to be erased.
Director: Hilary Powell