Bury Me Not

This film is closely related to my last featurelength project COUNTING I take the temperature of a neighborhood In this case the place is my New York I think about street life and its threatened demise a death ushered in as Big Money relentlessly remakes cities in ever more categorical ways I think with the camera on the move in fragments The light seen on a womans face in Chapter 3 of COUNTING is blocked by the luxury condo that grows and joins many nearby as Brooklyn succumbs to gentrification evinced by a beleaguered postOccupy Wall Street demonstration Here also is the ever worried ever renewed hum of the Manhattan crowds which continue to enthrall me What stays what gets buried Jem Cohen Viennale 2016