A Letter from Greenpoint (2004)

In February 2004 after 30 years of my life in SoHo I made a decision to leave SoHo and move to Greenpoint Brooklyn This video is about what it feels like to leave a place in which one has spent more time than any other place and which was also the place of my family life I am somewhere else now Its about beginning of growing roots in a new place new home with new friends new thoughts experiences This video is also about video When in 1949 I began filming with my Bolex it took me fifteen years to really master it so that my Bolex would do for me what I wanted When in 1987 I got my first Sony camera I thought it would be different But no Only today after working with the video camera for fifteen years I feel like it had become an extension of my eye my body A Letter from Greenpoint being my first real video work