“If I dwell on what this estate will be, I get miserable and anxious,” says Will Gwynne in one scene of Things Will Be Different. The new documentary captures the Walker Street public housing estate in Melbourne’s inner-city Northcote, where Gwynne lived for five years before it was knocked down to make way for a new mixed development, destroying his home and community.
Directed by the Melbourne film-maker Lucie McMahon, Things Will Be Different follows the dying days of Walker Street as Gwynne, a housing activist, and his neighbour Najat, a Moroccan mother of four, prepare for their forced relocation.
