Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 21 minutes ago

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In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, Stonewall veteran and trans activist Sylvia Rivera takes up residency on the Hudson River piers with a group of HIV-positive New Yorkers, as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.

Directed by Sasha Wortzel

A version of the film without audio description can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=dk-mdUrsfvw

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