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Film: VIVA LOISAIDA, a documentary by Marlis Momber

Marlis Momber's 1978 documentary about the Lower East Side of Manhattan, VIVA LOISAIDA, chronicles what life was like for the director and her fellow immigrants in the mid 1970s. The film opens with a scene in the old Tompkins Square bandshell and goes on to highlight the huge murals, the many grassroots art and political organizations which contributed to the EV/LES's a cultural diversity, the Poet Bimbo Rivas and much more... Born in 1943 in Berlin, Germany, Marlis Momber has lived in Loisaida since 1975. Her photographs document the struggle of the mostly Puerto Rican people living in that part of Manhattan. Her B&W and Color Photographs have been used to illustrate national and international publications on political and cultural topics such as: gentrification, urban development, slum lords/arson for profit, squatting, affordable housing/homesteading, cultural identity, education, the arts, drugs and urban crime.
More Information: http://www.vivaloisaida.org