Harlem Maysles Cinema Presents Rent Control: NYC Documented And Imagined

Rent Control: NYC Documented And Imagined

September 27th, 2008-April 25th, 2009

Over the next six months Maysles Cinema, a new theater devoted to documentary film and operated by the Maysles Institute, presents an in-depth examination of communities in New York undergoing change, Rent Control: NYC Documented and Imagined.

In this series, the Maysles Cinema will break with its own convention, by including fiction films into it's program, to consider how media representations of New York not only reflect the social and economic face of a time and place in the city, but can influence the character of the city itself. Utilizing this power of media to transform and critique social conditions, the theater serves as forum to share in and build upon the documentation, celebration, preservation and development of our communities.

This comprehensive series will bring together filmmakers, community organizers, artists, historians and politicians to take a look at New York City we once knew and the one we now know - on film and in life. In so doing, we offer a multivalent and engaged analysis of the battle for space, identity, resources and institutions between community, state, corporate, underground economic and cultural interests.

Curated by New Yorkers, Jessica Green and Philip Maysles, each month Rent Control will examine two different communities. The series runs from September 27th, 2008-April 25th, 2009 and films include Kevin Keating's Giuliani Time, William Miles's I Remember Harlem, Natasha Florentino and Tamara Gubernat's Rezoning Harlem, Ed Morales and Laura Rivera's Whose Barrio, Barry Shear's Across 110th Street, Maria Clara's Life on Christopher Street, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop Greenwich Village, Jenny Livingston's Paris is Burning, Ben Solomon's Captured, Mansee Kong's Here to Stay, Sean Baker's Take Out, Christine Choy's From Spikes to Spindles, Charlie Ahearn's Doin' Time in Time Square, Allan Moyle's Times Square, Melvin Frank's The Prisoner of Second Ave, The Case Against Lincoln Center, Christine Noschese's Metropolitan Ave, Hal Ashby's The Landlord, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Booker Sim's Tragedy: The Story of Queensbridge, and Hye Jung Park's 7 Train an Immigrant Story.

Speakers include Nellie Hester Bailey of the Harlem Tenants Council, historian Michael Henry Adams, Sonia Guzman, Josefina Salazar, Filiberto Hernandez and Oscar Dominguez of the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, Arlene Davilla (author of Barrio Dreams and Latinos, Inc.), Helena Wong of the Chinatown Justice Project at CAAAV, filmmaker and photographer Clayton Patterson, filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, the Center for Immigrant Families, artist Steve Powers, filmmaker, DJ and activist Loira Limbal, Tenants and Neighbors, and Rise Wilson of the Laundry Mat Project.
Screenings are open to the public at the suggested, but not required, donation of $7.

The Maysles Cinema is located at 343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard at 127th street (between 127th and 128th) in New York City.

2/3, 4,5,6, A,B,C,D to 125th street

Please direct all press inquiries to cinema@mayslesfilms.com, or contact Philip Maysles at 212-582-6050 ext 218.

Saturday September 27, 6pm

Intro: The Celluloid Jungle
Miriam Greenberg, Author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to The World will deliver a multi-media presentation: From Dog Day Afternoon to Deathwish to Wall Street; NYC's boosters and parasites.

Sunday, September 28, 7:30pm

Giuliani Time
Dir. Kevin Keating, 2005, (118 mins)
A documentary about the two term mayor, one time presidential candidate, and pro-cigar smoking, anti-community organizing McCain/Palin surrogate Kevin Keating will be available for questions after screening.

Central Harlem

Thursday, October 16th, 730 pm
Parts 1 & 2 (120 min)

Friday, October 17th, 7:30 pm
Parts 3 & 4 (120 min)

I Remember Harlem
Dir. William Miles, 1980, (240 minutes)

Rezoning Harlem
Dir. Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat, 2008, (40 minutes)

Followed by:
Saturday, October 18th, 8:00 pm

Central Harlem Panel
Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council
Michael Henry Adams, Historian
Beverley A. Sibblies, Community Board 10, Real Estate Developer
Rezoning Harlem Directors, Natasha Florentino, Tamara Gubernat

Harlem's Mart 125: The American Dream
Dir. Rachelle Gardner, 2005 (70 mins)

Followed by:
Sunday, October 19th, 7:45pm:

The Brother From Another Planet
Dir. John Sayles, 1984 (108 mins)

Saturday, October 25th, 7pm

Whose Barrio?
Dirs. Ed Morales & Laura Rivera, 2007, (45 Minutes)

Followed by:
Saturday, October 25th, 8pm

East Harlem Panel
Oscar Dominguez, Juan Haro, The Movement For Justice in El Barrio
Arlene Davila, Author of Barrio Dreams and Latinos, Inc.
Whose Barrio Directors, Ed Morales & Laura Rivera

March to Save Our Homes and Our Barrio
Dir. Marcos Meconi, Movement for Justice, 2007, (8 mins)

International Campaign in Defense of El Barrio
Dir. Salvador Pantoja and Movement for Justice, 2008, (8 mins)

March for Dignity and Against Displacement
Dir. Movement, 2008, (10 mins)

NYC Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification
Dir., Christine Peng and Movement for Justice, 2008, (30 mins)

(All Films in Spanish and English)

Movement For Justice in El Barrio appearance includes:
Sonia Guzman, Josefina Salazar, Filiberto Hernandez and Oscar Dominguez

Followed by:

Sunday, October 26th, 8pm

Palante Siempre Palante!
Dir. Iris Morales, 1996, (48 minutes)

Across 110th Street
Dir. Barry Shear, 1972, (102 minutes)

Alice Neel
Dir.- Andrew Neel, 2007, (82 mins)

Downtown East
Landlord Blues
Captured
From Spikes to Spindles
Here to Stay
Take Out

Downtown West
Next Stop Greenwich Village
Paris is Burning
Fenced Out
Life on Christopher Street

Times Square
Doin' Time in Time Square
Jane in Peepland
The Gods of Times Square
Times Square

Upper East Side/Upper West Side
Metropolitan
The Prisoner of Second Ave
Breaking and Entering
Panic in Needle Park
The Case Against Lincoln Center

North Brooklyn
Metropolitan Ave
Laws of Gravity

South Brooklyn
The Landlord
The Education of Sonny Carson
Do the Right Thing
Making Do the Right Thing

North Bronx
(Films and Panels To Be Announced)

South Bronx
(Films and Panels To Be Announced)

Queensbridge
(Films and Panels To Be Announced)

Astoria
(Films and Panels To Be Announced)

All City
(Films and Panels To Be Announced)

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