300 Nassau

Gentrification in New York City frequently conceals criminal practices, as in the story of 300 Nassau Avenue. The tenants had faced the landlord’s harassment until he destroyed their building.

In order to fight him they also had to cope with an intricate bureaucratic system. Using the testimony of one of the tenants in the case they held against their landlord, the film explores the gap between the law’s impersonal language and the intimate narration of a traumatic experience.
By delving into a desolate space, 300 Nassau depicts the fragility and limits of the human condition.

Screenings

Encuentros Jóvenes Artistas de Navarra (Spain)

L’Alterniva 24 Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona

Director’s Statement

My motive in 300 Nassau was to demand that the spectator feels twice the violence to which these tenants were subjected to: simultaneously environmental and bureaucratic. Here is just one example of an insidious practice within NYC, a city where there seems to be no place for low income and working class people anymore. In this film, we engage with a desolate place and impersonal legal language, replacing what was once a home and an emotional experience.
— Marina Lameiro

Director

Marina Lameiro works primarily in the realm of personal documentary. She studied Editing and received her Masters degree in Creative Documentary in Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where she co-directed the film Demonstration with Victor Kossakovsky and 31 other students. Marina holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. In early 2018, she completed ‘Young and Beautiful’, a many-sided portrait of a generation accused of being reluctant to grow up and forced to give up their dreams in order to survive. It was an official selection for the 2018 Punta de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra.

Marina Lameiro works primarily in the realm of personal documentary. She studied Editing and received her Masters degree in Creative Documentary in Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where she co-directed the film Demonstration with Victor Kossakovsky and 31 other students. Marina holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. In early 2018, she completed ‘Young and Beautiful’, a many-sided portrait of a generation accused of being reluctant to grow up and forced to give up their dreams in order to survive. It was an official selection for the 2018 Punta de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra.

Credits

7 min., 2015
Directed by Marina Lameiro

Editor and Cinematographer: Marina Lameiro
Production and research: Michela Monte, Mariangela Ciccarello.
Voice over: Lucila Moctezuma
Sound Editor: Oskar Benas

UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Director: Lucila Moctezuma

UnionDocs Artistic Director: Christopher Allen

2014-2015 Collaborative Fellows: Emanuele Andreoli, Irene Bartolomé, Chelsi Bullard,  Mariangela Ciccarello, Tessa Rex, Sofia Geld, Adam Golub, Sophie Hamacher, Sarah Kerr, Zack Khalil, Marina Lameiro, Michela Monte, Katherin Machalek