Art cover of 2014 DVD edition of the film Little Spain. The announced on Tuesday a DVD edition of the film Little Spain,  directed by , is now available on their official website. The film, which summarizes a part of Hispanic immigration in the United States displaying the history of New York City (NYC), is based upon a set of old photographs and testimonies showing a neighborhood called in , situated at the West End of 14th Street, in the time when  densely populated by Spaniards and Hispanic immigrants. The sixty minute, feature-length, documentary looks back at the founding of La Nacional in 1868 and the uptick in migration from Spain following its loss of Cuba in 1898; continuing through to the Hispanic apex in the area, after the of 1936–1939, finally charting the community’s sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Well into the 1960s Spanish was still commonly spoken on 14th Street. The film also displays footage of the Santiago Apóstol  , or St. James Day , festival, which died out in the early 1990s as the remnants of the Hispanic community left that part of the city. Artur Balder worked closely with New York's (MoMA), and with the in order to show the film in NYC. He is currently preparing two new projects: The Reality of the Imaginary,  with Nobel prize-winner , recipient , and artist , expected to premier at the MoMA in 2015. The second project being with –American painter and renowned art critic . The film shows how Spain contributed to the vast wave of emigration of Europeans to the Americas which, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, transformed the three continents. The Spaniards were a very small proportion of US imigration compared to some of the other national or ethnic groups of immigrants that came to the United States, such as , , .
Art cover of 2014 DVD edition of the film Little Spain. The announced on Tuesday a DVD edition of the film Little Spain, " directed by , is now available on their official website. The film, which summarizes a part of Hispanic immigration in the United States displaying the history of New York City (NYC), is based upon a set of old photographs and testimonies showing a neighborhood called in , situated at the West End of 14th Street, in the time when it was densely populated by Spaniards and Hispanic immigrants. The 60 minute, feature-length, documentary looks back at the founding of La Nacional in 1868 and the uptick in migration from Spain following its loss of Cuba in 1898; continuing through to the Hispanic apex in the area, after the of 1936–1939, finally charting the community’s sharp decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Well into the 1960s Spanish was still commonly spoken on 14th Street. The film also displays footage of the Santiago Apóstol festival , or St. James Day festival, which died out in the early 1990s as the remnants of the Hispanic community left that part of the city. Artur Balder worked closely with New York's (MoMA), and with the in order to show the film in NYC. He is currently preparing two new projects: The Reality of the Imaginary, " with Nobel prize-winner , recipient , and artist , expected to premier at the MoMA in 2015. The second project being with –American painter and renowned art critic . The film shows how Spain contributed to the vast wave of emigration of Europeans to the Americas which, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, transformed the three continents. The Spaniards were a very small proportion of US immigration compared to some of the other national or ethnic groups of immigrants that came to the United States, such as , , .
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