Interface of the Memories of the Future app. Image via urbanomnibus.net
In collaboration with fifteen poets and community activists from StartUp Box South Bronx, I recently created Memories of the Future, a location-based cinema project viewed on mobile phones. The group experimented with spoken word poetry, site specific performance, and on-site spectatorship to reframe the predominant view of Hunts Point and speak about possibilities for its future from a position of power.
— urbanomnibus.net
Paula Ramirez, "I Am the Six Train" - Vignette in the Memories of the Future mobile cinema application project, based in Hunts Point, Bronx
Simply Rob Vassilarakis, "We Out Like That" - Vignette in the Memories of the Future mobile cinema application project, based in Hunts Point, Bronx
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Had this job up there once with a good 10 block walk from the subway...one time we were waiting for our ride instead of walking and some guy comes up to us - me holding the roll of drawings and starts asking what were in the roll of drawings. I did not show him so he started to yell at us "you people think you just change peoples lives with drawings. Who gives you the right to draw whatever you want and make us live in it." We responded its a warehouse 10 blocks that direction, we are not developers or city officials. Our ride showed up, the guy still angry. That was about 11 years ago. That would of been great to capture in a video. I made the walk quite often no problem. The security consultant drove to a site meeting once, he had a 9 mm on the stack of papers in his briefcase.....
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