Gut Renovation

Streaming video - 2012

In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists’ lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area between East River and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. She shows the demolition of industrial buildings and the construction of trendy new apartments for wealthy clients, watching old tenants leave and new inhabitants arrive. As she keeps meticulous record of developments, the extent and speed of the upheaval becomes clea...r. Her own tenancy agreement expires too and so her documentary images and trenchant commentary become the tools of her growing anger.

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Outcast Films 2012.
2017.
Language
English
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
In Process Record.
Film
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time
01:20:50
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).