williamsburgh

facebook.com/williamsburgh.brooklyn

When Art Came To Brooklyn

In the very last days of the 1970‘s a trickle of artists began to move to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, looking for cheap space. They found Polish, Hassidic, Puerto Rican and Dominican communities living quietly around a dying industrial zone on the East River, littered with radioactive waste, a flourishing drug trade and Polish bakeries in which English was not recognized.

All young artists step onto a fringe and create a mythic landscape of their own. A film about the the search for an artistic life, growing up, and the price that is sometimes paid for “art.”

3 shorts from a work-in-progress. Inquiry documentary.

Sian Evans: director/producer
Josh Povec: editor/producer
Kevin Murphy: cinematographer
Martin Connelly: web developer
Ben Hillman/Hillman & Associates: design