Director Series - CAPTURED

SYNOPSIS: Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he's recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.

This film features previously unseen photographs and videos from Mr. Patterson's extensive archives.

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About Cantor Film Center Theater 200: This onetime Greenwich Village favorite on Eighth Street near Broadway deserves to have a listing apart from the Art Greenwich, which was much futher west. The Art Moderne styled Art Theatre first opened in 1938 and was built by the Rugoff & Becker circuit. Thomas Lamb is credited as architect, though it was more likely someone in his company since he was semi-retired by that time.
The Art Theatre started out as a late-run showcase for American and foreign movies, but became a first-run in the late 1950's. It eventually fell into the clutches of the RKO-Stanley Warner-Century combine, which let it fall into disrepair and finally closed it around 1985-86. RKO then took the name Art and attached it to the Greenwich, which it also operated.
After closure, the Art was taken over by B.S. Moss, which turned it into a triplex as the Movieland. Moss had recently closed its Movieland at Broadway and 47th Street (the last of many names for the 1918 Central). Movieland seems an inappropriate name for bohemian Greenwich Village, which is perhaps one of the reasons why the theatre didn't have a long or successful life.
Its sale to NYU seemed inevitable, since the university may be the Village's largest property owner. In 1997 they employed architect Davis Brody Bond to renovate the building.