This short film documents a late-'70s Washington, D.C., ignored by the media, from which poor Black residents are being pushed out.
Images of monuments contrast with prescient images of gentrification and homelessness. An alternative is provided by the Seaton Street project, in which tenants united to purchase buildings. Participants discuss their effort as part of a worldwide struggle against displacement.

A film by Shirikiana AINA

starring Lester WAKEFIELD

USA, 1982, Documentary, 36 mins, color, 16mm

Original Title: BRICK BY BRICK
Countries: United States / Ghana
Duration: 36 mins
Year: 1982
FORMAT: 16mm
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Themes: Gentrification, racism, housing, poverty

PRODUCER / PRODUCTRICE :
Shirikiana AINA

DIRECTOR / RÉALISATRICE :
Shirikiana AINA

SCREENWRITER / SCÉNARISTE :
Shirikiana AINA

CINEMATOGRAPHERS / DIRECTEURS DE LA PHOTO :
Ellen SUMTER
Norman BLALOCK

EDITOR / MONTEUSE :
Shirikiana AINA


BRICK BY BRICK documents a late-'70s Washington, D.C., ignored by the media, from which poor Black residents are being pushed out. Images of monuments contrast with prescient images of gentrification and homelessness. An alternative is provided by the Seaton Street project, in which tenants united to purchase buildings. Participants discuss their effort as part of a worldwide struggle against displacement.
-Kevin McMahon

Available for research at UCLA:
www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/brick-brick
www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/access-la-rebellion-collection-ucla


2021 | A Right to the City - Brick by Brick /// Library Takeout (DC Public Library) (Washington, USA, 2021)
* Thursday, June 10, 2021, 6:30 p.m: Special screening of the film BRICK BY BRICK and discussion with filmmakers Shirikiana Aina & Merawi Gerima. In conversation with Samir Meghelli (Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Community Museum)
www.dclibrary.org/node/68062