Wooster Street: Urban Adaptability

Описание: This is a documentary film about one street in the city of New Haven. My neighbors have spent their entire lives on Wooster Street and are now in their 70s and 90s. They are the children of a large group of Italian immigrants who came to the area in the 1870s creating an enclave that has survived for over a hundred years. I moved there a little under two years ago. I represent a new wave of immigrants to this area, a group that is predominantly upper-middle class with ties to the universities in the area. Few of these new comers are Italian, yet we are happy to be a part of little Italy as the banners on the street proudly declare. It may have been or still may be true that the area could honestly be called a little Italy, but the day is approaching where the ethnic group that imparted the character to the neighborhood will be scarcely found. The street has been forced to adapt to this new reality or else risk losing its reputation as the main drag of the Wooster Square neighborhood.

This was a project I made for Elihu Rubin's Architecture 941a: Urban Research and Representation at the Yale School of Architecture. The original is 14min so I apologize for the rough cuts.