Gut Renovation Opens March 6 at Film Forum
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About the film: In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists' lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area between East River and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. She shows the demolition of industrial buildings and the construction of trendy new apartments for wealthy clients, watching old tenants leave and new inhabitants arrive. As she keeps meticulous record of developments, the extent and speed of the upheaval becomes clear. Her own tenancy agreement expires too and so her documentary images and trenchant commentary become the tools of her growing anger.
Gut Renovation won the Audience Award at Brooklyn Film Festival and is an Official Festival Selection at Berlinale, Dortmund, Viennale, Seoul Women’s, Nat’l Gallery of Art, at Images Toronto.
Last updated: Mar. 3, 2013 