7:30 p.m.	Urban Peasants Ken Jacobs (U.S., 1975)

“One day—saying, 'can you make copies of these?'—(my wife’s aunt Stella) pulled out a frozen stack of 16mm black-and-white film! Home movies, of course. . . . I chose not to follow the carefully penned chronology, but instead connected uncut one-hundred-foot rolls picked at random. . . . I chose to confine events to Brooklyn of the thirties and forties (when, as you know, a quarter-spin of the globe away, similar innocents were having hell visited upon them). Images alternate with ‘Situation number 3: When You Go to a Hotel’ and ‘Situation number 8: When You Are in Trouble,’ in their entireties, from the instructional LP Instant Yiddish.”

—Ken Jacobs

• (60 mins, Silent with some sound-on-cassette, B&W/Color, From Film-makers’ Cooperative)

Preceded by short:
Untitled (Part One) 1981 (Ernie Gehr, U.S., 1981). “With a hand-held camera, shooting for the most part from an overhead angle, Gehr filmed what remains of the original Jewish immigrants as they go about their daily life-sustaining activities on the streets of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Working in close-up, Gehr isolated the gestures, feet, heads. He edited the material into fairly short shots, fashioning a synthetic, closed space which evokes the isolation of the ghetto.”—Amy Taubin (28 mins, Silent, Color, From Canyon Cinema)

• (Total running time: 88 mins, 16mm)