Rent Control: Brooklyn
February 4, 2009, 7pm

The Maysles Cinema hosts Brooklyn on the big screen as a part of their sox-month long series Rent Control: NYC Documented and Imagined, an examination through film and conversation of diverse communities all over New York that are undergoing social and economic change.

Films include: Sarah Friedland, Kahil Shkymba and Nayo Joy Simmons' Subprimed (2008), a documentary that takes a look at the effect of the national foreclosure crisis on East New York; and artist Duke Riley's provocative video Duke Riley Presents Paul Piers for Chanel (2006) about the homeless people who lived in a Williamsburg warehouse and created a micro-industry out of found clothing, supplying area vintage stores and boutiques.

Post-screening discussion with featured directors and artists to follow.

Rent Control: Brooklyn is presented in conjunction with A New Deal, Art and Currency on view at BRIC Rotunda Gallery through March 7. A New Deal, curated by Baseera Khan, highlights relationships between American presidents and the economy, while observing how these relationships affect art-making. For better or worse, each president affects the course and stability of the economy, and likewise, the changing economy affects the stability and reputation of each president. Artists in this exhibition play within the space of literal and imagined artifacts of currency and alternative methods of exchange to push social protest and reconsider material value.