Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon: Film Screening & Panel
The Cooper Union and The New Yorker present a free screening of The New Yorker Documentary’s award-winning short documentary Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon, directed by filmmaker and Cooper Union School of Art alumnus Bill Morrison and produced in collaboration with Invisible Institute. When masked and nameless US
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Border Patrol agents abduct a man from a residential street in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood without a warrant, his neighbors attempt to obstruct the vehicle carrying him from leaving their block. Continuing the language they developed with their Oscar-nominated short Incident, Morrison, working again with journalist-producer Jamie Kalven and joined by journalist María Inés Zamudio, combined CBP body-cam footage with cell phone recordings shot by neighbors on the scene to capture a specific moment in the rise of fascist policing in America. Following the documentary, Morrison will be joined by his co-producer Kalven, Devashish "Dave" Basnet, senior immigration policy strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), and Gwynne Hogan, senior reporter at The City Reporter, for a discussion about justice, surveillance, and the state-sponsored abuse of power.