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Program 7: On the Loisaida and the Streets of the South Bronx
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
This program conveys the dynamism of both the Nuyorican Loisaida and the South Bronx, featuring films that deal with issues of housing and displacement affecting the working-class and immigrant communities who call these spaces home, as well as the harsh political realities of dealing with the bureaucracy of municipal government.
Program 6: Gentrification and Urban Renewal, Part 2
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
The second program of films gathered under Gentrification and Urban Renewal encompasses works by Jack Smith, Charles Simonds, Newsreel, and Erik Lewis that document political, cultural, and personal reactions to the crises wrought by urban and socioeconomic flux.
Program 5: Gentrification and Urban Renewal, Part 1
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
This program juxtaposes the propagandistic documentary What Is the City but the People?âa panorama of places and spaces that alternates between discussion of âurban crisisâ and purported city-led remediesâand Newsreelâs rough-hewn Break and Enter, chronicling the activism of Operation Move-In as they work to help Puerto Rican and Dominican families displaced by so-called âurban renewal.â
Program 4: Architecture and Gendered Space
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
Three films by Shirley Clarke, Bette Gordon, and Holly Fisher deconstruct the mythos of the skyscraperâa central presence within the overarching mythos of New York City itselfâby examining, critiquing and poking fun at the association of these feats of engineering with gendered labor.
Program 3: The Postwar City Symphony, Part 2
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
Beyond the aestheticism and pure technical and perceptual adventurousness of films in âThe Postwar City Symphony, Part 1,â the films in Part 2 use the city symphony mode as a means to explore more cerebral topics, ushering in a new era for the genre. Featuring works by Michael Jacobson, Rick Liss, Peter Von Ziegesar, and Steven Siegel.
Program 2: The Postwar City Symphony, Part 1
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
A cornerstone genre of experimental film, the city symphony was born in Europe and linked strongly to Modernism. This program explores the New York-based city symphony as exemplified by works by Marie Menken, D.A. Pennebaker, Rudy Burckhardt, Ian Hugo, Francis Thompson, and Arthur âWeegeeâ Felig.
Program 1: Moving Through the Metropolis: Transit Images
By Rebecca Slaman
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April 10, 2024
The rapid rise of mass transit and urban populations in the late 19th and early 20th century saw tectonic shifts occur in New York City. The dominant subject of this program is the train, with elevated and underground journeys quickly becoming a common subject for experimental filmmakers and artists.
Making Men with Discussion + Dance/Movement Illustrations
By Rebecca Slaman
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March 28, 2024
Shot in the breathtaking landscape of Zimbabwe, this dance film examines the question of masculinity through the story of four individuals who proceed unquestioningly into manhood through various stages of their lives, yet are oppressed by a feeling of unease.
IndieWire Presents: Screen Talk Live
By Jordan Raup
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March 26, 2024
Join IndieWireâs Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson and Deputy Managing Editor Ryan Lattanzio for a special live edition of Screen Talk, the independent news siteâs weekly podcast.
Like Nothing Happened and Heaven Is Still Far Away
By Rebecca Slaman
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March 25, 2024
This program brings together two medium-length works, made 13 years apart, that foreground Hamaguchiâs long-held ability to zero in on the nuances and pressure points of (mis)communication.