Midnight along the Rockaways.
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Willets Point on the morning of the Iron Triangle premiere last week, still in full “renewal”-induced limbo state.
And here’s the full film with my footage and @longunevenhair’s cut paper animation, on vimeo at last: https://vimeo.com/236233541
Two rituals of Spring in New York: Phagwah, or Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, and Biur Chametz, the Burning of the Bread at the start of Passover.
They had been lodged for the night in a hotel on the rim of the airport, resembling all such places and in fact one of a row of nearly identical edifices, edged in parking lots and official landscaping. But there were, in fact, differences. The lack of bar or other amenities in theirs drove them out into surrounding neighborhood, to the seemingly duplicate hotel block next door and among the sleeping houses webbed with impasses and dead ends as the land artificially rose and fell to incorporate the truck routes and freeways that spun in a tangle away from the hub of the airport.
Chance Ecologies, July 2016. Iron Triangle, the film that Maya and I made partly over this residency is newly completed.
