GRAMnet Hamedullah: The Road Home / Future Memory in Red Road

Hamedullah: The Road Home
Every year, around 2000 lone children come to the UK from war-zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. They’ve left behind desperate situations, and arrive with few documents but full of hope. As children they’re protected by the UK Children Act. When they turn 18 they are arrested by the Home Office in terrifying and brutal dawn raids, held without further trial, then flown out on secret ‘ghost flights’ to be dumped, penniless and unprepared, back in the war zones they fled as children. No one tracks them or has been allowed to, until now. This is the story of Hamedullah Hassany, a young teen who fled here from Afghanistan and lived safely in Canterbury with friends. Then police and Border Agency officials broke into the house in the middle of the night, threatened the boys and snatched Hamedullah’s best friend Zaker. This film explores what happened next.

Future Memory in Red Road
Future Memory in Red Road provides an overview of the Future Memory in Red Road project that took place in early 2013, leading to a public event in May at the Red Road flats in north Glasgow. The event included a sound-scape projected from speakers located within the skeletal steel framework of Petershill Court – creating the ultimate ghetto blaster. Photographic portraits were installed on fencing and garage doors and multi-coloured fabric sheets formed part of the visual interventions.