“Gowanus Current is more than simply an artful account of community and grassroots activism, though it fulfills that promise superbly. The film is also a pure cinematic and sensory immersion in glinting water, straining machines, and passionate, eloquent humans as they struggle to make sense of this poisoned garden we’ve made of the world.”

– Jonathan Lethem

Audiences have said:

“We were talking about it and are still talking about it. Such a complicated story you shared. And let the story tell itself. Gorgeous and devastating.”

“Primarily, it’s a beautifully lyrical work that relies on solely on images (not a narrator, nor any text) to capture movement and moments at a critical time in a very specific neighborhood. The filmmakers focused on what could be publicly seen, period. No “behind-the-scenes” speculation and no hint of favoritism. It’s not your usual documentary. Even if you have no personal experience of Gowanus in the 10 year time frame of the film, the images are compelling and sometimes provocative. Plus, the filmmakers are local and  the geographic context is local.

“The doc was ‘really enjoyable’ and gave ‘earnest witness to the universal and controversial march of progress that is the NYC experience’ with ‘no overt agenda, beyond the importance of documenting and preserving something significant in the lives of the community and the city.’ The tight 90-minute runtime was ‘perfectly paced and expertly compiled from a deep well of footage gathered over a decade’ thanks to the editing of @captain_courville, with the cinematography ‘a credit to their versatility in telling a story shot by shot, from a precisely framed lockup of the slow deconstruction of a local landmark to the chaos of a cramped community board meeting.’

“The film is beautiful. The amount of thought you put into it, the details. Simply amazing.”

“I wanted to let you know how wonderful Gowanus Current is. I can’t imagine how you managed to sort through all the footage to create such a beautiful, meaningful and artful piece. It is a moving and important documentary.”  

“What bold artistic choices! — the film let feel time and place so carefully and emotionally. And I don’t even understand how that works, but the film felt very richly emotional. And so beautiful on top of all of it. I love that it is a film *about* advocacy but not fo advocacy. And that it stirred us all up because watching this we feel the need *for* advocacy — and now we gotta do that in other media/channels. Thank you thank you.”