Colonial Glass

Director’s Statement

COLONIAL GLASS is a short video-portrait of one of the industrial manufacturers on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn waterfront. The video celebrates the potential pleasure of manufacturing jobs and viability of urban industry while recognizing that, in a gentrified neighborhood, most workers cannot live where they work.

Screenings:

2008 IMAterial (New York, NY)

Links:

Colonial Glass
Comment Williamsburg

Credits

Camera/Editor: Sarah Nelson Wright
Featuring: Mario Flores, Zach Weiner & Luis Rivera
Special Thanks to: Zach Weiner, Leah Archibald, Isabel Hill & Michael Gitlin