Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they’ll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.
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Kartemquin in the classroom
May 9, 2008
Kartemquin's Jim Morrissette and Julie Englander met with 7th and 8th grade video students at the Eli Whitney/LVCDC Community School in Little Village on Thursday, where they screened clips from Now We Live on Clifton, The New Americans, and a few of Jim's PSAs, and talked about working as documentary filmmakers. The Little Village community and LVCDC had been the subjects of some Kartemquin filming in the winter, and this class was a great opportunity to demonstrate a little bit more of what Kartemquin does, as well as introduce ourselves to a new generation of video fans!
- Filmmakers
- Jerry Blumenthal
- Alphonse Blumenthal
- Susan Delson
- Sharon Karp
- Peter Kuttner
- Gordon Quinn
- Richard Schmiechen
“By allowing the children to watch the world around them and talk about it, Kartemquin has managed to make the film accessible to the public at large…”
—Ralph Cintron, The New Art Examiner
I Space Gallery, UIUC– 2005
Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy – Official Selection