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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.68,0:00:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[film reel]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.30,0:00:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[percussion and horn music]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.99,0:00:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excuse me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.83,0:00:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[background street sounds]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.12,0:00:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fun to be in the street, \Nlike, pushing something
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.60,0:00:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making people get out of your way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.78,0:00:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughing]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.79,0:00:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think pushing things \Nin carts is just city living.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.82,0:01:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, there's no car culture\Nhere in New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.19,0:01:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's already \Ninherently understood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.91,0:01:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she's working slash she's an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.48,0:01:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are ya'll doin?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.97,0:01:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, you're doing an art documentary?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.84,0:01:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good luck to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.67,0:01:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[rattling]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.54,0:01:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.17,0:01:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm interesting in telling\Ninvisible histories,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.54,0:01:36.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about groups of people that occupied \Na space that no longer exists.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.85,0:01:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the 400 year old history \Nhere in Harlem
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.61,0:01:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just the original natives \Nbeing displaced up to this very moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.88,0:01:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, they helped shaped \Nthe place into what it is now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.66,0:01:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[background street sounds]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.66,0:01:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody would know \Nthat 123 West 131st Street
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.70,0:02:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a boarding house and that \Nmy grandfather was born and raised in.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.42,0:02:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it's the ugliest building \Non the block.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.53,0:02:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This salmon colored thing \Nthat was selling for $500,000.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.70,0:02:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For one apartment in the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.48,0:02:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like, gimme a break.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.78,0:02:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not 100% sure on background \Ninformation on my grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.18,0:02:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I don't know how much \Nclarity he had himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.07,0:02:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that he was raised\Nby an elder couple.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.95,0:02:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their names were \NMari and Count DeVille,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.80,0:02:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you know, good luck finding that\Non Ancestry.com.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.18,0:02:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think maybe that's what placing \Nthose heads in the street was about,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.14,0:02:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of reclaiming of a space,\Nor of a territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.93,0:02:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[rattling]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.11,0:02:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[background street sounds]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.29,0:03:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother lived across the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.18,0:03:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that's how she met my grandfather,\Nand, um, made my daddy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.32,0:03:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I just chose a space \Nthat could potentially have been
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.76,0:03:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the brownstone that she lived in.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.81,0:03:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandmother's family came \Nfrom Richmond, Virginia
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.59,0:03:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the '30s and '40s, \Nso they were part of the Great Migration.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.35,0:03:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like the wave of 6 million \NAfrican Americans moving from the South
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.74,0:03:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Northern cities and West, \Nlooking for better opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.60,0:03:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, here we are hundred years later,\Nand now there's holes all over Harlem,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.41,0:03:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like building sites of new things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.84,0:03:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sort of feels like the Earth\Nis shifting and moving
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.44,0:03:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and things are being razed and leveled \Nand new things are being built
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.35,0:03:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and old things are being done away with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.06,0:03:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New groups of people are moving in\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.52,0:03:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and old groups of people \Nare being pushed out,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.20,0:04:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, it's almost like migratory patterns \Nof birds or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.98,0:04:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're witnessing history.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.56,0:04:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cart rattling]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.31,0:04:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[unintelligible speaking]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.26,0:04:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an African burial ground \Nsomewhere near 126th Street
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.14,0:04:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the base of the Willis Avenue bridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.99,0:04:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to be some strange staging ground\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.56,0:04:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for emergency vehicles \Nand police presence, continuously.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.22,0:04:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[crash]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.55,0:04:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just and odd in between place, \Nthat hasn't found meaning yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.48,0:04:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That they haven't been able \Nto turn into something depressing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.16,0:04:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a Whole Foods, or a, uh, a condo.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.95,0:05:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A condo sliver.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.26,0:05:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[tape ripping]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.100,0:05:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been thinking \Nabout that site for a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.60,0:05:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is my first pass at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.78,0:05:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just an exercise of acknowledgment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.95,0:05:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[rustling]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.44,0:05:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I kept thinking about was these bodies\Nwith no names and no faces.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.76,0:05:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These bodies that weren't cared about \Nwhile they were here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.39,0:05:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still aren't cared about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.15,0:05:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was trying to invoke \Na human kind of presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.24,0:05:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[background street sounds]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.19,0:05:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of trash as a record of existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.35,0:05:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That these things were used by people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.17,0:05:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're the archaeological evidence\Nof the present moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.80,0:06:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History is permeating everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.10,0:06:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether you know it or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.37,0:06:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think trash is the absolute perfect \Nresponse for talking about that space
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.36,0:06:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's how \Nthose people were treated.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.94,0:06:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how that site is being treated.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.24,0:06:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[child laughing]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.86,0:06:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's important to acknowledge\Nthe people that went behind you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.08,0:06:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if they lived the most mundane life, \Ndecisions they made
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.81,0:06:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the reason why you exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.78,0:06:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause my gran'ma thought \Nmy grandad was cute.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.86,0:07:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She got knocked up with my dad, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.29,0:07:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, if she didn't think the dude \Nacross the street
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.21,0:07:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was cute with his straight hair, \Nyou know, I wouldn't be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.05,0:07:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think things are just...random, \Nthey're not.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.49,0:07:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[street sounds]\N[music]