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Schpilin Aqui (Play Here), 2006 This is a short experimental cine-poem on the crossroads of two traditional cultures of South Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York City. Signage, architecture, cultural iconography and street life are montaged into a humourous take on the clash and cross over of two very different groups. Windows made from silhouettes of games, puzzles, blocks, etc. reveal street life of the Puerto Ricans and the Satmar Hasidic ethnic groups who live side by side. A humourous soundtrack parallels the imagery symbolizing the religion, habits, lifestyle of this ethnic neighborhood. Although the tension has subsided between the Puerto Ricans and Satmar Jews, the cyclical change of new neighbors and luxury development has united these two ethnic groups for the first time. Screenings 2006
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