FILM

Join PRH (Project Row Houses) for our Monthly Movie Night & Discussion, this month featuring the film La Ciudad (The City).

 La Ciudad (The City) is a narrative snapshot of a side of New York that is rarely seen: the city of illegal immigrants, the homeless, seasonal workers, sweatshops, and laborers from Manhattan's Latin American neighborhoods. An intensive collaboration with the immigrant community over a five-year period has resulted in a complex four-part narrative in which the subjects of the film are its principal actors.

Set in the present day, the film follows four separate stories of immigrant life. A young laborer, scavenging for bricks, is killed when a wall collapses; two teenagers from the same village fall in love, then lose each other in a housing project; a homeless father tries to enroll his daughter in school; a young garment worker seeks justice in the sweatshops. The film begins with formal references to conventions which recall the classic tradition of still photography and documentary films of the 1930s: gorgeously lit black-and-white portraits of workers, families, street life, and ordinary labor.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Movie begins at 6:45 p.m.

The location is 2521 Holman Street, Houston, TX 77004.