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NEW YORK EATS ITS YOUNG
Program of NYC shorts, co-presented by Alfreda's Cinema, curated and introduced by
Melissa Lyde, founder of Alfreda’s Cinema
Alfreda's Cinema co-presents New York Eats Its Young, a program of short films evoking an early memory of Harlem, the community that nurtured, among many others, James Baldwin, Sonny Rollins, Faith Ringgold, and Roy DeCarava, to name just a few.
"New York Eats Its Young is a meditation on growing up in the City: playing on rooftops, near the river and garbage dumps. Like the Southern communities it resembled, Harlem was a place where adults on the block knew both each other and their children and helped to create a shared responsibility. This was a place left behind that defined the experiences of so many famous, and everyday, African American city dwellers.” - Melissa Lyde, curator.
Program includes Black Plus X (1966, Aldo Tambellini) and Perfect Film (1985, Ken Jacobs), Black Journal: The Black Cop (1972, Kent Garrett).