Brooklyn Matters: a documentary film by Isabel Hill
On Thursday, January 4th, at 6:00 p.m., the Center for Architecture – home to the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects – will screen “Brooklyn Matters,†a documentary by Brooklyn filmmaker, urban planner and historian Isabel Hill. The timely and urgent film exposes how powerful interests are circumventing community participation and skirting legal protections to push the “Atlantic Yards†project forward at any cost.
Ms. Hill, a Brooklyn resident, and former planner in New York City’s Department of City Planning, directed the award-winning “Made in Brooklyn,†a documentary about the borough’s manufacturing industry.
From the American Institute of Architects website:
Brooklyn is distinctly different and yet such an important part of New York City. The names itself brings to mind tree-lined streets, finely carved rowhouses and beautiful churches and diverse communities, rich in cultural life and ethnic heritage. On the upswing, vibrant and rebuilding itself, Brooklyn faces a new challenge—an uncommon development, designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry, that threatens to redirect Brooklyn’s future and reshape its identity.
BROOKLYN MATTERS is an insightful documentary which reveals the fuller truth about the Atlantic Yards proposal and highlights how a few powerful men are circumventing community participation and planning principles to try to push their own interests forward.
Event is free, but RSVP HERE
What:
Brooklyn Matters, a documentary film by Isabel Hill.
Panel discussion to follow.
When:
Thursday, January 4th
Doors open at 6:00 pm
Film starts at 6:30.
Where:
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place (between West 3rd Street and Bleecker Street)
Greenwich Village
For mass transit access, take the A, B, C, D, E or F subway to West 4th Street
536 LaGuardia Place (between West 3rd Street and Bleecker Street), Manhattan
Center for Architecture
Am I the only one
...to see the irony that this is being shown in Manhattan? Heh.
Heh
I did notice...ironic especially since the title is "Brooklyn Matters." I wish they could have a similar event here in Brooklyn where it really matters!
The venue is appropriate otherwise and actually kind of imressive.
But at such a venue
If you can go (and I will try too), budget extra time because the place in which the movie will be shown is not only "in Manhattan", but at a building worth seeing for itself. The Center for Architecture is worth a detour, combined with a good movie, make the trip.
the movie was shown at
the movie was shown at Barbes on December 15th, and will be shown at Pratt later in January.
broadening the audience beyond Brooklyn is crucial, ESPECIALLY to the world of architects and planners.
Absolutely
Completely agree that it is important to get a wider audience and the venue is perfect. Though a bit ironic.
Let me know when it shows at Pratt. Would be worth publicizing here.
Next Showing?
Hi...any news on a next showing, i just found out about this tonight...