Busy Weekend: Documentary Film Shoot; Photography Exhibit, etc.
On Saturday night I had the pleasure of spending the evening with the amazing Cuban-American filmmaker Anna Margarita Albelo (who now lives and works in France) to be filmed for her upcoming documentary on "post-gay" culture. The segment of the documentary which focuses on me deals with the controversy surrounding gentrification, police brutality, and queer people of color in the West Village.
Ana and her two brilliant fillmmaker colleagues,
Niko and Jean-Baptiste, filmed as I interviewed various familiar faces on Christopher Street, walked in and out of Chi-Chiz's and the Pizza shop on Hudson and Christopher (the infamous hang-out spot) and hung out on the pier. 
Niko and Jean-Baptiste, filmed as I interviewed various familiar faces on Christopher Street, walked in and out of Chi-Chiz's and the Pizza shop on Hudson and Christopher (the infamous hang-out spot) and hung out on the pier. 
I discussed everything from the aftermath of Rudolph Guilani's "quality of life" campaign on the disenfranchisement of racialized youth in New York City to the ways in which wealthy gay Greenwich Village residents have been at the forefront of displacing queer youth of color from "their" neighborhood.
Tomorrow we'll be filming me here in Bedstuyvesant, to try to juxtapose the craziness of the West Village with the more mundane surroundings of my everyday life in Brooklyn. The film will be debuting this fall at the French Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Tomorrow we'll be filming me here in Bedstuyvesant, to try to juxtapose the craziness of the West Village with the more mundane surroundings of my everyday life in Brooklyn. The film will be debuting this fall at the French Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
On Sunday, 
my buddy Kalup Linzy and I caught the opening reception of Delphine Fawundu-Buford photographic exhibition "Beyond Fierce: Photographs of Black and Latino Men 'In The Life.'" As I mentioned previously, 
Delphine photographed me a couple of weeks back for the project---I enjoyed the image that she decided to include in the exhibit. 
Be sure to check out the show which is running in Brooklyn at Harriet's Alter-Ego until July 2nd. 
Peace,
Frank Leon Roberts
Peace,
Frank Leon Roberts
umm...one of those dudes is cute as HELL...lol
Posted by
AC |
6/04/2007
You have your hands in everything. That is a great picture by the way
Posted by
life |
6/04/2007
keep doin what you doin you making a big impact in the world
Posted by
Andre J. Allen II |
6/08/2007