Urbanism Shorts w/ Power Up Now
This Bastille Day, join Low Cinema and Power Up Now for an evening of urbanist imagineering, from evocations of the avant-garde architectural collective Archigram and Jane Jacobs's Toronto-boosterism to the Federation of Black Cowboys in southern Queens, spelunking in abandoned subway tunnels, and scouring the city for a decent public restroom. An animated 2013 short of a newspaper coming to life in the city around it. Reminiscent of the stylings of the 60s avant-garde architectural collective Archigram . (8 mins) This 1971 short film follows Jane Jacobs, urbanism's patron saint, as she declares that New York is over and that the future of mixed-use city building is in Toronto . (28 mins) A 2010 documentary portrait of the Jewel Street neighborhood, a low-lying area wedged between Brooklyn and Queens and disconnected for the City's sewage infrastructure. Also known as "The Hole", the area has a semi-mythic status with cowboys , off grid living, and as an alleged mob body-dumping ground. (10 mins) This 2011 short film give us a view of the city through the eyes of an urban explorer as he treks through the tunnels, sewers and drains beneath our feet. (28 mins) In this 2023 episode of an innovative docu-comedy TV series, a filmmaker discovers just what a nightmare it is to find a public bathroom in New York City. Why aren't there enough bathrooms, and what can be done to address this urgent issue? (29 minutes) Total runtime: 103 mins. The program will be followed by a panel disc