Body of Work Screenings Honoring Kelly Anderson
Submitted on June 17,2026
BODY OF WORK
A retrospective glance at films and filmmakers who have shaped our visual culture. Cost: $5.00 per evening
Thursday, July 30 - Friday, July 31, 7:00 PM
Kelly Anderson is a Sunset Park, Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker whose most recent films are Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square (with Ryan Joseph and Kathryn Barnier). Her 2012 film My Brooklyn, about the hidden forces driving gentrification, was broadcast on PBS’s America ReFramed. Kelly produced and directed Every Mother’s Son (PBS, 2004, with Tami Gold) about mothers whose children were killed by police, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and aired on POV. She also produced and directed Out At Work (HBO, 2000, with Tami Gold), which premiered at Sundance and won a GLAAD Best Documentary award. From 2015-17, she co-chaired the cooperative distribution company New Day Films. Kelly is the Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College (CUNY).
Thursday, July 30, 7:00 PM
My Brooklyn
(USA, 2012, 76 min)
The film follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that - despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City - is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high-rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians, and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change.
Friday, July 31, 7:00 PM
Emergent City
(USA, 2025, 99 min)
Over a decade, within the borders of a single Brooklyn community district, a microcosm of American democracy emerges. Residents of Sunset Park face a tangled web of rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism, and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.
