“For years I hated photography. I believed anyone could do it. All you had to do was point the camera, maybe focus it, and there it was, a picture. Especially with the advent of digital cameras and phones there was an onslaught of pictures everywhere. I have always felt that I was being lazy, using photos as my major art form while what I really wanted to do was to make films, an art form that incorporated photography, narrative, literature, and music.” — Nan Goldin
The Brachfeld Galleryis a fashion-connected creative space based in Paris, and dedicated to what is considered authentic and personal work by artists and artisans either working within, or touching on the industry.
Co-curated by Dorothee Perret, founder and editor of Paris, LA magazine and Ed Brachfeld, founder and director of the production company brachfeld-paris the programming includes anything from photography, design, drawing, film and fashion, to performance or music.
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Directed by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stacy Peralta and Executive Produced by NBA star Baron Davis and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Stephen Luczo, CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA tells the story of the Crips and Bloods, South Los Angeles’ two most infamous African-American gangs. Combining unprecedented access into the worlds of active gangs, CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICAoffers a compelling, character-driven documentary narrative which chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture.
From the genesis of LA’s gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., the film chronicles the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony that provides the film with a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.
Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South LA’s malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.
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