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BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS / Film Screening & Filmmaker, Seth Fein Q&A.
Free
BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS / Film Screening & Filmmaker, Seth Fein Q&A.
Presented by Terraza 7 Outdoor Screening Series.
Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at 6:30 pm.
No Cover.
Event Sponsored by #CityArtistCorps.
Film by SETH FEIN & Seven Local Film.
81 minutes.
Original version multilingual / Subtitled in English
Synopsis:
BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS (81 mins. 2016/2018) works in split-screen between original and archival footage to contemplate the present and past of immigration and imperialism that orbit Robert Moses’s Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park since the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. It began life as an interborough installation between the CUNY Grad Center and Queens College in 2016, from where it evolved into its present form. It won the Founders Choice Award for Documentary at the Queens World Film Festival (2017). Much of this documentary diptych was shot in Jackson Heights and its final scene features an improvised performance by Mexican Son Jarocho artist Zenén Zeferino filmed inside Terraza 7. You can read more about this project in Untapped New York as well as Jump Cut.
OLMSTED & MOSES, AL & ME (short work-in-progress sample) maps the overlapping legacies of the 19th-century city Frederick Law Olmsted planned and the 20th-century one Robert Moses built in dialogue with the filmmaker’s life and work in Moses’s Queens and his childhood in Olmsted’s Brooklyn, where he grew up in a cityscape dominated by his father’s work as an Olmsted scholar.
About Seven Local Film Series:
SEEING SOCIAL GLOBALIZATION IN QUEENS / A series of documentaries by SETH FEIN.
Three different programs, October 23, 24, and 30 @6:30 pm.
This series screens three recent documentaries by Seth Fein that differently contemplate immigration in Queens. Each also connects to this series’ home – Terraza 7 – which, Fein notes, “is an audiotopia that exemplifies the immigrant-driven cosmopolitanism that has sustained the arts across Covid Time in the part of Queens my films document – and where I live – an area fundamental to NYC’s global identity and actuality.”
• THE ACTOR IN HIS LABYRINTH (Oct. 23) is a portrait of Sebastían Ospina’s professional and personal journey –– his decades-long struggle “to be meaningful” –– between Colombia and the United States, as refracted in his own portrayal of Simón Bolívar in Queens today.
• BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS (Oct. 24), contemplates in split-screen the present and past of imperialism and immigration that orbit the largest rendering of the world in the world –– Unisphere –– to essay the contemporary contest between corporate and social globalization in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and across Queens between the age of Robert Moses and that of AOC.
• SMALL KITCHENS (Oct. 30) is an observational tone poem about food and labor between two restaurants and cuisines in one neighborhood under the 7 train. Shot in 2019 in Elmhurst-Jackson Heights, it screens with the premiere of its 2021 EPILOGUE about the same places today, featuring music performed at Terraza by Abare (Ari Hoenig. Chico Pinheiro and Eduardo Belo).
A short work-in-progress sample of OLMSTED & MOSES, AL & ME, Fein’s new video essay about the intersection of personal and public histories across NYC –– also screens at each event.