south bronx
The art of documentary filmmaking has been one of the forms of visual art which captivated me since my beginning. Projecting events, facts or perspectives through a documentary film in such a way as to attract interest by anyone, even viewers without an original interest in the subject matter, is a real challenge. To reflect the filmmaker's point of view, without upsetting, intimidating or being condescending, that's a challenge within a challenge.
After every completed documentary project I came through wiser, more mature, with a greater will to expose, to reveal and to narrate. There's grace in the faces of all the heroes of every documentary I made. Grace in the eyes of the Apache kids in Arizona, hope in the eyes of the kids with guns at the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a blade of green grass growing out of the rubble of the South Bronx. The purpose is not to show the unpleasant but to celebrate the strength and stamina of people in unusually strenuous circumstances.
South Bronx, New York City, 1988
After every completed documentary project I came through wiser, more mature, with a greater will to expose, to reveal and to narrate. There's grace in the faces of all the heroes of every documentary I made. Grace in the eyes of the Apache kids in Arizona, hope in the eyes of the kids with guns at the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a blade of green grass growing out of the rubble of the South Bronx. The purpose is not to show the unpleasant but to celebrate the strength and stamina of people in unusually strenuous circumstances.
South Bronx, New York City, 1988