Urban Peasants (1975)

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family chanceassembled from uncut 100foot filmrolls Sound precedes and follows silent image 40 minutes of image plus 12 minutes of sound My wife Flos family as recorded by her Aunt Stella The title is no intended putdown but a simple statement of fact as I see it Brooklyn was a place made up of many little villages a nearshtetl is pictured in the space of a storefront Ken Jacobs