POV Summer Shorts

A series of short films from POV.

 BY WAY OF CANARSIE   

A portrait of an oft-neglected community imagining possible futures at odds with the present. Using various formats, these vignettes explore Canarsie’s unique relationship to the water through recreation, brief encounters, and expressive use of analog film, granting an understanding of this predominantly Black neighborhood’s shared desires for recognition and respect. A film by Emily Packer and Lesley Steele and Shirin Ghaffary

 FREEDOM SWIMMER 

The story of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong that parallels his granddaughter’s own quest for a new freedom. A film by Olivia Martin-McGuire and Brooke Silcox and Ron Dyens

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