Sunday
,
Jul 13
,
2025
Sunday
,
Jul 13
,
2025

Brighton Beach

by Carol Stein & Susan Wittenberg. 1980, US, 60 min.

Post-screening conversation with filmmakers Carol Stein & Susan Wittenberg.

Delighting in the daily rhythms of life alongside the Coney Island boardwalk in the '80s, this recently restored documentary weaves together conversations with eclectic residents — Russian grandmothers, Puerto Rican sunbathers, and generational New Yorkers — alongside archival footage of the Brooklyn seaside from fifty years earlier in a sparkling summer portrait that celebrates unexpected moments of belonging and resilience in an ever-evolving community at the edge of the city.

Brighton Beach is a film about survival, uprootedness, immigration, racism… marriage… how the poor find pleasure, how the old stay young, how people in crowded places share space, how the melting pot won’t melt. It is a film about a corner of gentleness and relief in a tough town.” —Carol Stein & Susan Wittenberg

“Unpeels layers of this bizarre neighborhood, its organized anarchy, its exquisite ugliness, its funny sadness” —Jonas Mekas

Preceded by:

Weegee's New York. 1946-48/51, US, 21 min. Edited by Amos Vogel.

“One of the most under-recognized films of the 1950s.” —Scott Macdonald

Your ticket includes the 7:00pm Rockaway Chamber Music performance.

Doors at 6:30pm

Performance at 7:00pm

Screening at 8:30pm

Food by Beachtender Anthony Robinson

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Special thanks to David Schwartz and Sara Ickow. Weegee's New York courtesy International Center of Photography, New York.

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