Lost and Found: The Greenpoint Banjo Boys
Every time I find a strip of film it is the same: I am ecstatic to have found such a “gem”, I eagerly hold the strip to the nearest light source and peer closely to see what I will, and I then feel it… in the back of my head, “should you really be doing this?”
And yet still I go on.
In this case do these boys hold an heirloom, or some item found that helped them pass the time? Does one, or all, actually know how to play the instrument? Can we assume that these boys live nearby? I recognize the street as the one on which I work… which seems so very surreal.
Found swirling amidst leaves and the remnants of a pack of Camel Lights in Greenpoint, Brooklyn – a traditionally Eastern European enclave. A woman stumbled past as I bent to pick the strip up – I believe she had suffered from a stroke and yet seemed no older than me.
Simply click the above image or here to see the full strip.