Kelly Anderson, USA, 2012

A very personal documentary about the borough of Brooklyn, New York, which has been the subject of enormous change in the past few years because of gentrification and urban renewal. The filmmaker, who has been documenting her neighbourhood since 1988, has observed how the increase of luxury apartments and chain stores affects the desirability of the area and has also meant the exclusion of certain types of people, the destruction of alternative culture and the diminishing of racial diversity. It is a process that we can now observe clearly in Amsterdam as well and is therefore extremely relevant for us too. 

The screening is part of FAIRcity.