DocumentaryDocumentaryTwo films, two radically different New Yorks. The first is polished city propaganda from 1969, selling an official vision of urban renewal. The second is a rough, urgent documentary about Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaiming abandoned buildings. Watch establishment and resistance square off across the screen.
avant-garde cinema
activist documentary
urban history
1960s New York
Tips
🪑seating is extremely limited, arrive early
🎬Newsreel was a radical 1960s film collective
Gentrification and Urban Renewal, Part 1 (Program 5)
DocumentaryDocumentaryTwo films, two radically different New Yorks. The first is polished city propaganda from 1969, selling an official vision of urban renewal. The second is a rough, urgent documentary about Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaiming abandoned buildings. Watch establishment and resistance square off across the screen.
avant-garde cinema
activist documentary
urban history
1960s New York
Tips
🪑seating is extremely limited, arrive early
🎬Newsreel was a radical 1960s film collective
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