Brooklynese
Poster for Brooklynese
A Screening Series in or pertaining to the borough
Spring 19: celebrating documentary media by CUNY faculty
Programmed by Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College
Mondays, 7 p.m., with Q&A following
POV Screening Room
20 Jay Street, Suite 940
Brooklyn, NY 11201
March 18, 2019
Tami Gold (Hunter College): For women’s history month, a portrait of a feminist activist from civil rights to lesbian activism and global human rights.
- Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch (Gold, 2018, 58 mins) and related clips
March 25, 2019
Jonathan Zalben (Brooklyn College Feirstein) with Elizabeth Lo and Garrett Bradley, Todd Chandler (Brooklyn College) with Brett Story: 3 POV picks and a New York Times Op-Doc.
Four short films with a focus on the matrix of controls over poor people of color including shelter and prison.
- Hotel 22 (2015, 8 min, dir: by Elizabeth Lo, music by Jonathan Zalben)
- Mother’s Day (2018, 8 min, dir: Elizabeth Lo, music by Jonathan Zalben)
- Alone (2018, 12 mins, dir: Garrett Bradley, music by Jonathan Zalben)
- A Debtor’s Prison (2017, 15 mins, Chandler and Story)
April 15, 2019
Zoe Beloff (Queens College) and Irina Patkanian (Brooklyn College): two films on exile.
- Exile (Zoe Beloff, 2017, 51 mins)
- Little Fiel (Irina Patkanian, 2017, 15 mins)
April 29, 2019
Yoruba Richen (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) and Madeleine Hunt-Erlich (Queens College): 2 films on mythology and opacity, freedom and leisure, found in archives of African-American history.
- The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (Yoruba Richen, 2019, 51 mins)
- New Work (Madeleine Hunt-Erlich, 2019, 12 mins)
May 20, 2019
Antonio Tibaldi (City College) with Alex Lora, and Kelly Spivey (Brooklyn College): two films on belonging, purity, and heritage in Jewish New York.
- Thy Father’s Chair (Tibaldi and Lora, 2015, 74 min)
- The Liberation of Helene Aylon (Spivey, 2015, 29 min)
