No Place But Here

This 360 VR documentary presents stories from the residents of Cissie Gool House, a previously disused Cape Town hospital, who live there to avoid being displaced from the area they call home.

Gentrification in Woodstock, one of the oldest suburbs of Cape Town, has caused a housing crisis. No Place But Here introduces us to a working-class community who have moved into an abandoned hospital building and made it their home. Having no access to affordable land and housing in the area, the only option to escape being displaced to a ‘place on the outskirts of Cape Town’, away from the communities they have lived in and raised families for decades, is occupation. The residents see the unused buildings as their only housing option and have built a community 1000 strong.