Slideshow
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Orchard Street -
The Heart Of Loisaida
Orchard Street, 1955
and The Heart Of Loisaida
Tuesday, February 17
6:00
Orchard Street, 1955
U.S., 1955
Directed by Ken Jacobs
Approx. 27 min.
“My first film was about Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. I couldn't afford the car fare to travel around New York and I lived right next to Orchard Street. It is a jumble of stores crushed together and a huge crowd of people walking through the streets looking for bargains. I was already very critical of capitalism, and this was a strange outgrowth of capitalism, but I began to film it. World War II had happened recently. This was a very Jewish street, and what had happened with Nazis through World War II was always on our mind. This was a world where terrible things could happen and some way I had to come to terms with that, which I never have. But it's a portrait. I saw many stories happening in tiny gestures.” – Ken Jacobs
Courtesy Azazel Jacobs.
Shown with
The Heart of Loisaida
U.S., 1979
Directed and produced by Beni Matias and Marci Reaven
Approx. 30 min. 16mm.
Shows efforts on New York's Lower East Side to revive abandoned buildings through the work and persistence of the local, predominantly Latino residents.
16mm print courtesy the New York Public Library.
