Jersey City Filmmaker’s Short Film Screening in NYC Tuesday as Part of NewFilmmakers NY Program
By Jon Whiten • Jan 10th, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog
John Dunstan has created a vivid short “nature” film shot entirely in Jersey City, and the resulting imagery of usually unnoticed animal life may come as a surprise. The film, Secret Life of … My Small Urban Backyard, features the small-scale wildlife that flourishes in Dunstan’s unkempt backyard and it has been chosen to be part of NewFilmmakers NY’s documentary series about the environment Tuesday night.
NewFilmmakers calls Dunstan’s 20-minute film “a remarkable nature film, made in a small urban backyard, with high magnification, and is an overview of insect and arachnid life as it takes place largely unobserved.” But don’t take their word for it; check out the trailer below, and check out the full screening at Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave., NYC) tomorrow night (the entire program, which features 11 films, begins at 6 pm). Tickets are $6; for more information, click here.
Like what you've read here? Please consider making a donation or becoming a sustaining member. As a grassroots news organization, we rely on community support -- as well as paid advertising -- to survive.
Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
Email this author | All posts by Jon Whiten
