[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, circa 1999, Greenwich Village, Jose with Peggy, summer of 1999]

About this film

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez circa 1999 exploring different locations in Manhattan. There is footage of the New York City coast, the docks, the Statue of Liberty and the ferry. Then, he documents Greenwich Village, with footage of different gay bars on Christopher Street. At the end, there is footage of some of his friends hanging out at his apartment with the dog Peggy. Collection description This film (Perez_0006) is part of the Mario Perez Video Collection . The Mario Perez Videotape Collection consists of 20 8mm videotapes and 28 mini-DV tapes. The tapes capture Mario and his friends in the gay community from about 1996 to about 2009. They are very personal and show Mario and his friends hanging out on Christopher Street, on the piers, at the Chelsea Gym and in the gay bar called Sneakers, which was on West Street at the corner of Christopher Street. The collection includes video on the following subject matter: Christopher Street and environs – gay bars, bookstores, and street life in the late 1990s including footage of bars with an ethnically and gender diverse clientele that no longer exist. These provide a view of gay life that has disappeared from Greenwich Village…

Directors & creators

Mario Perez

Subjects

Al Larvick Fund; home movies; 1990s; Video8; Media Burn Archive; Manhattan (New York); smoking; dogs; boats; streets; harbors; docks; Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.); Ellis Island (New York, N.Y.); ferries; Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.); stores, retail; gay bars; pets; pedestrian crosswalks; mannequins (figures); LGBTQ+ history; gay culture; Christopher Street (New York, N.Y.); Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.); 10th Street (New York, N.Y.)

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