BRICK BY BRICK: 11th Annual Film Festival
Thursday September 14-Sunday September 17, 2023
Held in a different community garden each night
Tickets on EventBrite
Thursday, September 14th, 7pm @ Green Oasis (8th street, between Ave C & D)
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Picture the Homeless
Footage from a 2009 action demanding housing for homeless in Chase bank’s vacant lot.
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Master of None/Todero
Portrait of Mario Bustamante, a colombian immigrant squatting on the LES in the 90s.
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The Spark (L’Etincelle)
2021 doc on the fight to establish a “Zone to defend” in a rural french commune.
Friday, September 15th, 7pm @ La Plaza Cultural (9th street & Ave C)
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The Crooked Edge
A teaser for a feature documentary about squatters, activists and artists on the LES during the 80s and 90s by John Pirozzi.
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Battle to Save La Plaza Cultural
1988 doc about an anti-gentrification campaign to save a community garden.
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Nubia Way
2022 doc of London’s first self-built Black housing co-operative from the 1990s.
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Rock Soup
1992 Doc of a soup kitchen serving homeless people in La Plaza Cultural.
Saturday, September 16th, 7pm @ Tompkins Square Park
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Anarchist Book Fair — Emma Goldman Film Festival
Visit the book & art fair in La Plaza durring the day, then stop by the film fest at night!
Sunday, September 17th, 7pm @ 6 & B Community Garden (6th street & Ave B)
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Survival Without Rent
Doc on LES squatters in the 80s and 90s. Work in progress.
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Sleep on the Water
Premiere of 2023 Doc on boat squatting in nyc.
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Battle of Tuntenhaus
1993 doc of a queer, anti-fascist squat in East Berlin until its eviction by police in 1990.