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Film

Rebuild by Design Proposals Unveiled

Ten final plans presented for Rebuild By Design.

Project 2X1: Intersections of Culture and Belief in Crown Heights

Empire Drive-In: A Novel Perspective on Car Culture

Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

In the second in a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts, Mercedes Kraus looks at how a cultural community has flourished by leveraging its legacy of artistic production in the face of intensifying real estate pressure and outside influence and interest.

Metropolitan Avenue: Community, Then and Now

In a filmmaker's depiction of a diverse, family-oriented Williamsburg community, viewers are served ingredients that commingle to form a lingering sense of loss.

The Fall of the American Movie Palace (especially that one on Flatbush)

Screenings: 2012 Architecture & Design Film Festival

Montage City: Edge Conditions

Three student videos investigate borders and urban transitions along 58th Street in Manhattan, aboard the Staten Island Ferry, and within the Hub in the Bronx.

Adaptation and Experimentation: New Housing for New York

Brooklyn Gentrification on Screen

Two new films each offer a look at a decade of change in Brooklyn.