A hidden enclave in the shadow of baseball‘s new Mets Stadium, the neighborhood of Willets Point, Queens, is an industrial zone fated for demolition. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for tourist development. But Foreign Parts discovers a strange community where wrecks, refuse and recycling form a thriving commerce. The film observes the struggle of a contested “eminent domain” neighborhood before its disappearance underthe capitalization of New York‘s urban ecology.

Director: Verena Paravel J.P. Sniadecki
Producer: Verena Paravel J.P. Sniadecki
Orig. Titel: Foreign Parts
Section: Three Colours Green
Original language: English/Spanish/Hebrew
Filmtype: Documentary Feature
DoP: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
Set Designer: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
Editor: Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
Format: DigiBeta (PAL)

Production Company: Sensory Ethnography Lab. | Phone: +1 617 223 7732 | Email: jpsniadecki@gmail.com