There Goes the Neighborhood

Happy Halloween everyone!  There are some very interesting people out tonight . . .

Please stop by Ocularis this Sunday, November 6, for the program, "There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrificiation on Film" curated by my friends, Diane Bonder, Stephanie Gray, and Kelly Spivey. 

There Goes the Neighborhood: Gentrification on Film
Sunday, November 6 at 7 PM
Ticket Price - $6
Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY

Programmers' Note:

"[Pressure] is being felt in mixed income neighborhoods that have
gone from lousy to trendy, housing advocates said, with residentsbeing pushed farther out to who knows where..." - from an August 2005 New York Times article about affordable housing.

As the character of New York continues to be stolen by development
for the wealthy, we lose a sense of place that was once more fairly
shared by everyone. At one time, we clearly knew that the Guggenheims
lived uptown, the factory and dock workers downtown, and people in
between, well, in between. That earlier New York was a genuine mix of
poor, working class, middle class, and upper class groups of
different ethnic backgrounds, many of whom actually lived not that
many blocks from one another on the island of Manhattan's
neighborhoods. Today, the sense of "outer borough" is much more than
just being "stuck in Brooklyn" as it used to be known by some
Manhattanites in the past. Now, as communities can't even stay in
their neighborhoods, Brooklyn certainly among them, the affluent are
taking their places too, and claiming tenements for authenticity and
views. Much of what felt like a more equitable New York was marked by
custom, hand-made signs--products of craftspeople who applied gold
leaf lettering or bright metal letters for bakeries, shoe stores, and
diners. Many of the films and videos in this screening celebrate and
document those signs as a gateway to understanding what has happened
to this once-more-leveled-out-playing-field of a city."

Works to be screened: Hdwd Flrs, No Fee, No Pets, Meredith Holch, 2000, 19 mins; The Case Against Lincoln Center, Newsreel, 1968, 12 mins; Grand Luncheonette, Pete Sillen, 2005, 4 mins; More Bread Forever, Stephanie Gray, 2004, 7 mins; Starbucks on Elmwood, Gail Mentlik and Anne Borden, 1998, 3 mins; S A V E, Roger Beebe, 2005, 3 mins; You Are Not From Here, Diane Bonder, 2005, 9 mins; Trying to get to the heart of the matter, Kelly Spivey, 2004, 10 mins; Late, Diane Cheklich, 7 mins; Film reels of pre-gentrified Times Square, the Deuce, Jem Cohen, 1980s and 1990s, 15 mins (with live musical accompaniment by T. Griffin Coraline)

Total Running Time - 88 min

Guest programmed for Ocularis by NYC filmmakers Diane Bonder, Stephanie
Gray, and Kelly Spivey

Comments

[guile]

nice, cozy place you got here :)..