The DocYard welcomes director Lynne Sachs & co-producer Sean Hanley to The Brattle for a screening of Your Day is My Night, Monday at 7pm. Since the early days of New York’s Lower East Side tenement houses, working class people have shared beds, making such spaces a fundamental part of immigrant life. Initially documented in Jacob Riis’ now controversial late 19th Century photography, a “shift-bed” is an actual bed that is shared by people who are neither in the same family nor in a relationship. Simply put, it’s an economic necessity brought on by the challenges of urban existence. Such a bed can become a remarkable catalyst for storytelling as absolute strangers become de facto confidants... Read more at bit.ly/13eTrHP
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:10:00 +0000
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