This is an Address

2019 | Short film and two-channel SD video installation, sound, color, 18 min

This is an Address I and II consider histories that have been razed, erased, and built over. These works trace the locations of past, essential, and community-building sites across New York City where LGBTQ+ people once gathered and lived; places now lost, redeveloped, and gentrified. This is an Address I follows a 1995 interview with the late trans activist Sylvia Rivera, who lived in an informal encampment—along with other queer, HIV-positive people—on the Hudson River piers; she spoke of their impending, and inevitable, displacement.

This is an Address I is distributed by Field of Vision.