Democracy and Development:
Screening of Emergent City

Sept. 30 | 5:30PM | Roosevelt House
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Panelists: Prof. & Film & Media Chair Kelly Anderson & Prof. Betty Yu

Emergent City, a film by Prof. Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg.  Called “the best NYC documentary in a decade” by Hell Gate, Emergent City follows the decade-long redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Industry City. A microcosm of American democracy, this meticulously-crafted observational film offers a front row seat to the public and private spaces where the city is shaped. more info…

TWN (Third World Newsreel) presents the Christine Choy Retrospective: ten preserved and digitized films from a pioneering Asian American documentarian whose camera tracked labor, incarceration, immigration, and liberation for half a century. Oscar-nominated for “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and honored in the Library of Congress, Choy filmed the stories the record left out. This fall, they return to the screen:

September 9-13 at Anthology Film Archives
September 13-16 at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema
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Prof. Ricardo Miranda’s illustrations for the School of Practical Philosophy & Mediation are once again posted across the subway system, however this season, Prof. Miranda has animated illustrations for the MTA Live Boards.