Walking down the streets of Williamsburg Brooklyn today with hipsters, bodegas, corporate stores, dive bars, cabs, families etc, its almost hard to believe that Williamsburg was once a place with the burning trash cans and abandoned buildings. Most of the old Hispanic population has long since been forced out, the bohemians moved in. In 1981 the filmmaker Angela Zumpe shared an appartement with her roommate Madison Smartt Bell in Williamsburg, who became a wellknown writer for fiction in the 90ies. A walk through their neighborhood, a visual music collage, which evokes a flashback to New York in the 80ies, when spontaneous human combustion was part of the art scene.
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