Gut Renovation
2017
Computer Files, Websites
In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists’ lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area between East River and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. She shows the demolition of industrial buildings and the construction of trendy new apartments for wealthy clients, watching old tenants leave and new inhabitants arrive. As she keeps meticulous record of developments, the extent and speed of the upheaval becomes clear. Her own tenancy agreement expires too and so her documentary images and trenchant commentary become the tools of her growing anger.
Main title:
Author:
Outcast Films (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Outcast Films, 2012.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.In Process Record.FilmOriginally produced by Outcast Films in 2012.In English
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Index terms:
Documentary-style films
BRN:
419807
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/354446/external-image - Cover Image