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Gut Renovation

Gut Renovation

2012
Documentary, History
A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York. The resulting film is an essayistic requiem for a neighborhood and an entire way of life; it also provides a case study of the rapid gentrification of our cities. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists' lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. (sufriedrich.com)
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Gut Renovation

2012
Documentary, History
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Rated 15 Apr 2022
45
20th
I appreciate the rawness of Friedrich's anger in response to the destruction of her neighbourhood, but it does severely compromise her broader message about the mutually constitutive relationship between gentrification and proletarianisation (in the Stieglerian sense). 'In Jackson Heights' by Fred Wiseman and 'West of the Tracks' by Wang Bing' are films which much more successfully depict in a cinematic way the 'evils' of urban development.

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