Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival
November 29th, 2007 Screening Announcement
The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival is presenting a series of documentaries about people living in Brooklyn. These Brooklyn documentaries focus on the lives and concerns of Brooklynites and their communities. This event is part of the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival which hopes to help bring awareness about the people and different communities in Brooklyn by illuminating their social and cultural histories and current-day realities
The upcoming screening of Brooklyn-focused documentaries to be shown at the Brooklyn Historical Society titled 'Brooklyn on Film, 1899-2007'on November 29th, 2007 will include the following documentaries:
‘Brooklyn: Among the Ruins’ - Suzanne Wasserman
‘Vodou Brooklyn’ – Stephanie Keith
‘Brooklyn Matters’ – Isabel Hill
‘Greenpoint: Rezoned So You Can Own’ – Jan Van Damme
‘New Heights: How the Crown Gets Down’ - Indelible Arts / Noble Arts
‘Player Hating’ – Maggie Hadleigh-West
‘Player Hating’ – Maggie Hadleigh-West
Maggie Hadleigh-West's 'Player Hating' brings home the precarious existence of some talented young Brooklyn men living in the Albany Projects while trying to breakout of their difficult circumstances by creating a new life as rap musicians.
‘Vodou Brooklyn’ – Stephanie Keith
This remarkable photo-montage documentary with narrative by Stephanie Keith presents powerful images, insights and understanding of the Haitian vodou community and their rituals in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn.
‘Brooklyn: Among the Ruins’ - Suzanne Wasserman
The unique perspective of Brooklyn born and bred Paul Kronenberg, an urban visionary is brought to life in Suzanne Wasserman's compelling documentary about a Brooklyn subway buff who built a life-size replica of a 1930s motorman's subway cab in his tiny bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Paul takes the filmmaker on a journey around New York City to note down, as Franz Kafka once wrote, “what he sees among the ruins.”
‘Brooklyn Matters’ – Isabel Hill
Isabel Hill's documentary about the massive Atlantic Yards project examines the charged dynamics and long-term impact of the planned development on local neighborhoods and people.
‘Greenpoint: Rezoned So You Can Own’ – Jan Van Damme
This snarky infomercial-styled film delivers a sceptical visual appraisal of the glib technique behind gentrification in Greenpoint and Williamsburg.
'Brooklyn on Film, 1899-2007'
'New Heights: How The Crown Gets Down'- Indelible Arts - Noble Arts
This in-development feature documentary brings the viewer into the Hassidic community's life and spiritual practices in Crown Heights. The outdoor ritual of Kapparos held on the streets of Crown Heights provides a fascinating illumination of ancient beliefs in current-day Brooklyn.
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 7:00 PM
At
The Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
Phone: 718-222-4111 Website: www.brooklynhistory.org
Admission is Free
