MoMA Presents Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki's Foreign Parts

Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki's Foreign Parts will have a weeklong run at The Museum of Modern Art from March 10 through March 16, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.

With the support of Harvard University's Sensory Ethnography Lab, anthropologists Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki spent two years filming this intimate portrait of the auto repair shops and junkyards that lie in the shadow of the New York Mets' Citi Field Stadium, in Willets Point, Queens, and the hardscrabble community of immigrants who work and live there. Once ignored and neglected by the city government, these residents recently became the target of a $3 billion redevelopment project of malls, offices, and high-rise condos. The rezoning and gentrification of the area, while perhaps less notorious in the annals of aesthetic crime than the destruction of Manhattan's Penn Station, has been no less destructive to the vitality and diversity of New York City. Foreign Parts was awarded Best First Feature and a Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, the Best Film Award at DocsBarcelona, and was a highlight of The New York Film Festival.

MoMA Presents: Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki's Foreign Parts is organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

MoMA Presents: Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki's Foreign Parts
March 10-16, 2011
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters