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- A portrait of blues and folk singer Karen Dalton, a prominent figure in 1960s New York, who discarded the traditional trappings of success.
- A young man's untimely death unites a fractured family and their community through shared memory and loss.
- Facing a sex obsessed culture, a mountain of stereotypes and misconceptions, and a lack of social or scientific research, asexuals - people who experience no sexual attraction - struggle to claim their identity.
- Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.
- 40-year-old Caribbean Sports Club has witnessed the transformation of South Williamsburg from one of New York City's poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods into a luxurious commercial and arts strip. As the harsh gentrification cleared the neighborhood from poverty and crime, it also washed away the majority of the Puerto Rican community and the local culture. Today, the Caribbean Sports Club is the last social club in the South Side, kept alive by its owner and the community matriarch Maria Toñita. A love letter to the Nuyorican culture, "Toñita's" dives into the microcosm of the club and lives of its patrons.
- After years of neglect by the City of New York and the devastation of Hurricane Sandy - the coastal community of Canarsie, Brooklyn wants more.
- A young Dominican DJ duo from the Bronx navigates the complexities of manhood and the legacy of their community, in hopes of one day creating their own.
- An intimate look at the NYC subway and the thousands of items and people that get lost in its tunnels.
- This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the remains of a utopian design in contemporary context, we are immersed in the life of a building and a community.
- For Sale in Los Sures (2013) explores the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn through a carefully curated selection of items which can be bought in the neighborhood. Los Sures is a rapidly gentrifying area, and this project is an evolving work-in-progress map which borrows the language and aesthetics of commercials to open windows onto the community and its changing identity by inviting people to interact with individuals and businesses there.
- The Broadway Triangle is a largely vacant space pinned between Bushwick, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy. Spanning 18 acres, it remains one of the most disputed spaces in New York City. Both traditionally neglected and contested, its development has exacerbated long-standing communal tensions between residents who live along its borders. This piece engages the contrast between the intense (and quickly disappearing) vacancy that characterizes the physical space and the tension that characterizes its place in the neighborhood. (2012)
- New York is a Big Apple is an essay film built from appropriated images and audio. The piece explores the complex and contradictory role of the 'author' in the construction of society and its artifacts. (2010)
- An immersive look at the spaces, identities, and communities created by a group of Mexicans in the Bronx as they organize to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to remake their hometown into what they had always wanted it to become, though they may never be able to return to see it.
- After 17 years in business, La Villita Bakery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was forced to close its doors. A victim of rising rents and rapid gentrification, this family owned business was a staple of the working class community that once could afford to live in the area. Chronicling the final days of this beloved bakery, The Last Bread (2013) captures the death of yet another small business in an increasingly homogeneous New York City. La Villita was located on the corner of Grand street and Bedford Ave, the division between the North and the Southside of Williamsburg.
- The flavors of nostalgia, community and family come together for the Rodriguez family to successfully run Brooklyn Cupcake, a vibrant cupcake shop in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- A for-profit charter school, Success Academy, is set to open in the Southside of Williamsburg. The Latino community opposes it, seeing the school as part of the wider gentrification movement and making Williamsburg more attractive for the richer class at their expense. They find the unexpected support of some white middle-class parents who believe in public schooling for all. Through organizing and protest, this divided neighborhood finds itself surprisingly united. (2012)
- A self-portrait of a young woman struggling in New York City after leaving Poland. She becomes hired as a maid in the Hasidic house in the Southside of Williamsburg and builds a mother-daughter relationship with a Hasidic woman. The Other (2013) is a meditation on freedom, identity and power.
- Produced over 5 years by 60 artists at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, LIVING LOS SURES is an expansive project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Known by its long-term Latino residents as Los Sures, the neighborhood was one of the poorest in New York City in the late 70s and early 80s. In fact, it had been called the worst ghetto in America. Today, it is the site of a battle between local identity and luxury lifestyle. With the restoration of LOS SURES, a brilliant work of cinéma vérité filmmaking as a starting point, the project has developed into a collection of 40 SHORT FILMS, the interactive documentary 89 STEPS, and the cinematic people's history SHOT BY SHOT, demonstrating new possibilities for collaboration between an arts institution and its surrounding community to collect memories and share local culture.
- Growing up in the 60's in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra's world was artfully framed by her mother's Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, she edits together sequences gaining insight into the challenges of her mother's life and the importance of her vision and archive.
- Couchsurferz (2011) is a journey into the homes of friends and strangers in search of 'significance' in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Sleeping on assorted couches, the surferz document the people and physical environments of their overnight stays. Over the course of a year, the surferz explore the relationships that develop between themselves, their hosts and the spaces they inhabit. Along for the journey are issues of representation, subjectivity, and agency in documentary filmmaking.
- A short film about the landlord of 300 Nassau Avenue's criminal attempt to force the residents out, told using narration from a tenant's experience.
- SANDWICHED is a short documentary film about Abdulmotaleb, who lives in two realities at the same time: on the surface, he's the friendly neighborhood bodega guy, but he's also a refugee from Yemen's civil war whose wife and children are still stuck back home.
- A program of films that straddle the experimental film and the documentary. A new film by Joel Schlemowitz will also have its premiere. Program includes Schlemowitz's Silo; Teslamania; Dame Darcy; Loudmouth Collective; and Moving Images.
- In the 1990s, the seemingly abandoned industrial areas of Williamsburg, Brooklyn created a unique haven for New York City's famous avant-garde art scene. Twenty years later, Williamsburg's artsiness has made it one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country. Having been pushed to further-out neighborhoods, artists are uncomfortably confronting their role in creating the very process that displaces them. I Was Here First (2015) follows 3 prominent ex-Williamsburg venues, taking a critical look at the future of experimental art in a city whose soaring rental market is driving some of its best artists out in search of more welcoming places.
- An interactive story about Marta, one of the primary voices from the film, as she contemplates leaving the neighborhood.