Captured.When riots broke out in 1988 on the Lower East Side between the Thompson Square Park tent community and the NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development , documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an also doc·u·men·ta·rist n. One that makes documentaries or a documentary. Clayton Patterson was there filming the bloody hysteria hysteria (hĭstĕr`ēə), in psychology, a disorder commonly known today as conversion disorder, in which a psychological conflict is converted into a bodily disturbance. . After refusing to turn over his videotapes to the bigwigs, he was jailed for contempt. Initially, Captured--Ben Soloman and Dan Levin's resulting documentary about the riots, which uses much of Patterson's footage--feels like a film about the Lower East Side's bizarre art community and Patterson's subsequent obsession with recording its history. But then the filming itself becomes a revolutionary tool for him to articulate not just his own voice, but the community's as well. On August 6, the 20th anniversary of the riots, there will be an NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City screening of the film, which follows Patterson from his arrival in the LES to his immersion as its historian. While gentrification gentrification, the rehabilitation and settlement of decaying urban areas by middle- and high-income people. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, higher-income professionals, drawn by low-cost housing and easier access to downtown business areas, renovated deteriorating has exonerated what Patterson calls "the outside edge" culture in the LES, Captured is a relic of what once thrived. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ERIN HANS capturedmovie.com |
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