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Rock soup
- Title
- Rock soup [videorecording] / produced by Lech Kowalski.
- Publication
- New York : First Run/Icarus, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2438 R | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Kowalski, Lech.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (81 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Kalif Beacon, a slight man who wears a large top hat, runs the Rainbow soup kitchen on a patch of squatters' turf called La Plaza Cultural located on New York's Lower East Side at 9th Street and Avenue C. The open-air kitchen, that subsists on donated and scavenged food, serves as many as 1000 people, mostly homeless, daily. In this cinéma-verité documentary, the residents of this homeless settlement discuss their lives as the eponymous repast boils. In 1988, Beacon and his confederates ran afoul of city planners when an announcement was made that their makeshift colony was slated for a senior citizen housing project. At a community board hearing, heated arguments erupt between the homeless and their supporters and other neighborhood residents.
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Producer, director, editor, Lech Kowalski; cinematography, Doron Schlair; music, Chico Freeman.
- Title
- Rock soup [videorecording] / produced by Lech Kowalski.
- Imprint
- New York : First Run/Icarus, 1991.
- Credits
- Producer, director, editor, Lech Kowalski; cinematography, Doron Schlair; music, Chico Freeman.
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- Added Author
- Kowalski, Lech.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2438 R