5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown (2009)

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You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering The Place. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself 'what used to be there?' You are only vaguely aware of the district's shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops. 10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown

Director: Shelly Silver
Runtime: 10 min
Release Date:
Country: United States of America
Original Language: en
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What is 5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown about?
You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering The Place. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself 'what used to be there?' You are only vaguely aware of the district's shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops. 10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown
Who directed 5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown?
5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown was directed by Shelly Silver.
How long is 5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown?
5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown has a runtime of 10m (10 minutes).
Where was 5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown produced?
5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown was produced in United States of America.