WOCHENKLAUSUR FEATURES | FILM SCREENING | CAAAV | THE FALL OF THE I-HOTEL
/// Prior to this event, we are offering a special a curator-led walkthrough of the Our Haus exhibition, with Amanda McDonald Crowley. The tour begins at 5:15PM, no special reservations needed. ///
WochenKlausur Features, New York (USA), a project by Vienna-based group WochenKlausur, who are part of the Austrian Cultural Forum’s tenth anniversary exhibition, OUR HAUS, focuses on contemporary positions and practices on the topic of housing and public space.
For the duration of the exhibition (which runs through August 26), nine New York-based organizations, associations, interest groups, and activists who deal with issues of housing and the urban built environment were chosen to use the ACFNY Gallery space for one week each. From August 13 to August 19, CAAAV will be the WochenKlausur “NPO-in-residence” at the ACFNY.
CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City. For the duration of their residence at the ACFNY, CAAAV will show a photo exhibit titled 11 Allen Street: Chinatown Residents Fighting for the Right to Remain in Their Homes.
For this event, CAAAV will screen
The Fall of the I-Hotel
(1983) (revised 1993 and 2005) 58 minutes
Directed by Curtis Choy
Urban renewal and wholesale evictions in the name of economic development are not new phenomena in New York City and elsewhere throughout the United States, as the The Fall of the I-Hotel illustrates. This documentary focuses on the struggle of elderly Filipino residents of the International Hotel in San Francisco in the 1970s, whose owner wanted to raze the building and replace it with a parking garage.
The eviction attempt galvanized the Asian American community in San Francisco and ushered in a new wave of Asian working-class organizing that continues to this day. This screening is the last of CAAAV’s summer-long film series focusing on classic documentaries about the Asian American movement.
There will be a reception before the screening with a cash bar and light food, as well as a short panel discussion after the screening.
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