IN JACKSON HEIGHTS, a film by Frederick Wiseman

Film still of a people walking down a neighborhood sidewalk
 

From our friends at Film Presence and Film Forum:

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS

Produced, Directed, and edited by Frederick Wiseman

Screening at Film Forum: Wednesday, November 4 – Tuesday, November 17

In the course of his brilliant, nearly half-century career, Frederick Wiseman has tackled both great social institutions (a prison for the criminally insane, high school, military, police, juvenile court, the welfare system) and cultural ones (La Comédie Franҫaise, the Paris Opéra Ballet, American Ballet Theater, London’s National Gallery). Here he profiles a community, Jackson Heights, one of New York’s most diverse neighborhoods, with immigrants from Peru, Colombia, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan (167 languages are spoken) — as well as elderly residents of Jewish, Irish and Italian extraction. Under the elevated train, a hodge-podge of stores sell whole baby goats, saris, and Bollywood DVDs; they offer HIV testing, Tibetan food, and classes for would-be cabbies. Jackson Heights is home to an activist LGBT community, to recent survivors of terrifying border crossings, students of the Quran, and small shop-owners who mobilize against the Williamsburg-ization of the nabe. Wiseman embraces a community that revels in still being affordable, 20 minutes from “the city,” and resolutely unhip.

USA • 2015 • 190 MINS. • IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A ZIPPORAH FILMS RELEASE

N.B. To mark the opening of this, Wiseman’s ninth film set in New York, the Museum of the Moving Image is presenting a series of seven of his NYC-related works (BALLET, CENTRAL PARK, HIGH SCHOOL II, HOSPITAL, MODEL, RACETRACK & WELFARE), running October 9 – November 7. Click here for details.