Battle for Brooklyn
Free screening Thursday night 6/9 in Fort Greene Park at 9pm
Battle for Brooklyn explores the poorly understood phenomenon of eminent domain abuse. A feature-length documentary from filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, and David Beilinson, this film investigates how real estate developers, local government, community activists, and the media have clashed over the largest single-source development project ever proposed in New York City. Widely known as the Atlantic Yards project, this undertaking has for the past four years been a major source of contention as local residents resist a billionaire developers attempt to use eminent domain to seize their homes and businesses. Done in the name of “development,” schemes such as this one eviscerate private property rights and make a mockery of the Fifth Amendment—and yet they freely exploit lucrative taxpayer subsidies, easements, and tax abatements.
NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
July 1 - 14
at Lincoln Center (July 1 - 14)
Japan Society (July 7 - 10)
The New York Asian Film Festival is ten years old! And we have presents for you!A Takashi Miike World Premiere!
The long-awaited animated epic based on Osamu Tezuka’s life of Buddha!
The International Premiere of the new movie from Johnnie To!
Rare Filipino exploitation!
An avalanche of retro screenings to celebrate our tenth birthday!And special guests Tsui Hark, Ryoo Seung-Wan, Su Chao-pin, Takayuki Yamada, Tak Sakaguchi and many more!
The New York Asian Film Festival is presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Japan Society’s Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film.
We’re deeply grateful for the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York, the Korean Cultural Service New York and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
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Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: Collectively Produced Film & Video
13-17 April 2011 Spectacle Theater 124 South 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
Collectively made films and videos from around the world!
$5/movie, $15 for a festival pass!
Who made these movies? We did it together! This series features films and videos by media makers around the globe who operate as collectives, using group identities rather than assuming individual authorship. Whether a political statement or an artistic choice, working collectively means combining many individual visions into a cohesive whole—egos will be crushed. You will see television sets thrown at riot cops and artistic mu…sings on the collaborative process among other things.
Featuring work by Chto Delat, CineManifest, Cinetracts, Groupe Medvedkine, Grupo Ukamau, Newsreel, Pacific Street Films, Paper Tiger Television, Raindance, TVTV, the Workers Film and Photo League, and more.
