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The Program:
Krewe of Rex (1941,
16mm amateur Kodachrome stock) Historic amateur footage of New
Orleans past from the Prelinger Film Archive.
I won't Drown on
the Levee and You Ain't Never Going to Break my Back (2006,
Digital Video) Documentary by Critical Resistance about the
plight of prisoners during and after Katrina.
Creating New
Spaces: Youth and the Redevelopment of Their Communities
(2006, Digital Video)Youth-made film about Y-Plan, a San
Francisco Bay Area program that allows students to have a voice in
planning their neighborhoods.
Downtown Brooklyn (2007,
Digital Video) A film-in-progress showcasing the economic value
of contested downtown Brooklyn to different communities.
Brooklyn Matters
(2006) Excerpt from a feature-length film about the proposed,
high-profile Frank Gehry/Basketball Stadium redevelopment of
Atlantic Yards, and the pitting of community groups against each
other.
London to Brighton
(2006, High Resolution Digital Timelapse) A high-speed train
ride set to music.
Cleveland St. Gap
(2006, 16mm and digital video) Filmmakers Courtney Egan and
Helen Hill juxtapose Helen’s restored soggy home movies with footage
of the same compositions in the same neighborhood, now abandoned, 10
months after the flood.
Wendover, Utah
(2006) An artistic tour of the Wendover, Utah land research
station.
Chinatown Stories:
Parcel C (2006, Digital Video) A victory for the
community, by Asian youth and Boston’s Asian Community Development
Corporation.
Madame Winger Makes
A Film: A Survival Guide to the 21st Century (2001, Animation)
An instructive film during which Madame Winger shows her viewers how
to make a film with simple and inexpensive materials.
Mouseholes (1999,
Animation) A piece about grief and memory that Helen Hill made
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