THREE FILMS FROM QUEENS screening + Q&A with director Seth Fein

Join us at the Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema at The People’s Forum, created in the spirit of their love of art, film, and revolution.

THREE FILMS FROM QUEENS BY SETH FEIN

Seth Fein presents three short films of diverse content as well as form that he produced in and (mainly) about Queens. A conversation with Seth follows screening of his films:

SMALL KITCHENS (31', 2019, 2023) observes the physical connections and social contrasts of kitchen work between a Nepali restaurant and a Mexican food cart, each owned and operated by immigrant women, on the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights border under the 7 train, in Queens. Workers participated as camera operators contributing POV footage of their labor. Initially shot in 2019, in the months prior to the coronavirus crisis, this observational tone poem is now a time-capsule of this most global part of NYC before it became the global epicenter of Covid-19 mortality.

THE ACTOR IN HIS LABYRINTH (32', 2023) maps Sebastián Ospina's journey from Colombian TV star to "nomadic" NYC theater actor, observing how his interborough and interamerican travels and travails resonate with those of Simón Bolívar in the play Ospina wrote and performs about the South American Liberator's final trek through Colombia, two centuries earlier.

DADDY'S BOYS (33:11, 2025) maps the adjacent politics of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo through their adjacent boyhoods in Jamaica Estates and Holliswood, Queens, and their respective relationships with their dads, Fred and Mario. The documentary essay's narration contemplates history and geography over POV bike rides and draws on original research in Moses's personal papers.

You can read and see more about Seth and his work at sevenlocalfilm.com

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