After You Leave

Filed under Film/Video, Open Workshop, projects

Event Information

Artist: Molly Schwartz
Website: http://www.phlea.tv/after.html

A documentation of the mute green conflict taking place here on the ground.

We thought the conflict of the neighborhood only existed in the realm of gentrification, construction, rent increases and population explosion, but there is another battle underway: the mute struggle of the linden, maple, ash, gingko and serviceberry. This project documents a silent war, the war of the trees of Williamsburg/Greenpoint against the dominating infrastructure – the trees’ stoic refusal to submit to the aggressive constriction and unremitting subjugation by the sidewalks, fences, decorative brick borders and buildings in this green battlezone.

Part 1.
Short (15-20 sec) animated video chapters recreating and documenting the aftermath of notable skirmishes. Each chapter will be a digital collage, animated from drawings, photos.

Part 2.
Online site, for participants to submit their own photographic and written observations of the struggle.

Part 3.
Map to guide participants to key locations. Each animated video chapter will also be available for mobile and online viewing, so that observers can watch the battle at the actual location here in the neighborhood.

There seems to be something quietly and very, very slowly pushing back. Vive la treesistance!