2024 | USA | Experimental

Midwood Movie

  • - - 70 mins
  • Director | Melissa Friedling
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: In Distribution

This film is currently not available.   

Midwood Movie is a feature experimental documentary about both a Brooklyn neighborhood and about motion pictures and their development. Shot over 12 years entirely on and around the former site of the American Vitagraph Company which began producing silent films there in 1906, the film digs through layers of cultural history, presenting an array of individual accounts of the site’s varied uses along with subjective appraisals of its importance. While excavating manifold media forms and formats, the film encounters artifacts and artists entangled in histories of harm and intolerance. In so doing, Midwood Movie contextualizes media and its monuments as a charged cultural milieu.

Film History Brooklyn Vitagraph Studios Anti-Semitism Experimental Film Movie monument cultural artifact
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