Those ad’s kill me.

RIP Dash Snow

i first visited NYC and Lower East Side in the summer of 1982 and remember how amazed I was at the vibe. Tomkins Sq had a festival of sorts where the whole community gathered, including, I think Allen Ginsberg. I remember trying to capture the atmosphere in a little story that I sent to a Dutch newspaper. It was never used. Later, around 2001, I came back to check on the neighborhood for a chapter for my book on underground from the 80s (Club Risiko), focussing on Sonic Youth and their coterie for the NYC chapter. It was nice. Nice is exactly the word. Nothing more, nothing less. Nice and very unexciting. Although Nick Zedd still tried to stir some #### in a small club somewhere. Anyway, great doccie!!! Thanks!

I appreciate the juxtapose of the soulless commercials they have running, right at key moments in this this. Like the Tide spot, showing how they respond to places that disasters hit, offering to wash clothes.... as the dirty fires blaze in the L.E.S.

crap!! i moved to St. Marks and first in 1978 you know who lived there then? people from east europe, spanish, black and musicians. those skells in the park shitting where they sleep were not from the LES, they were schmucks from the mid west or some such place..a bunch of slobs. if they wanted to keep the rich white people out they should have rented apartments when there was rent control but then they would need a job. now that place is lost forever. thanks a lot you bunch of ### holes

I remember my first trip to NYC in the summer of 1988.  I was 22 yrs old.  A kid from Cleveland OH.  The drummer in my band and I drove out there, parked in Battery park (for free !!!  we actually found 1 parking space where the parking meter had been decapitated - hahahaha) and walked and took subways through the city.  I could feel the tension and edginess of the city at that time.  We actually took a little hour or so nap on benches in front of the Twin Towers. 
Watching this brought me back to those times.  Thanks.
It’s a #### shame that corporate Amerika is gradually but surely duping all of the regular people into swallowing it’s bland, safe, boring, fascist plan.

wonderful

Wonderful piece. It shows the struggle of human spirit.
I know Clayton from the years I used to be a resident of the LES, he is alawys straight forward, honest and interesting.
Clayton is ON!the record - the past, future and our present!

Thank you for posting this. Clayton is a true pioneer to the art of documentation.

Captured is an important part of the political and cultural landscape and history of New York City as well as counter culture people everywhere.  It supports the people who live outside the mainstream culture.  The film making is exceptional. The focus on art - visual art, music, performance, sculpture, body art, costume - separates Captured from most documentary films.  Clayton is an artist who has empathy for people - he identifies with all people.

Thank you.

Okay, this was my nabe from 79-97 and nothing, no one captures it like this. There are times, when I walk through the area today, that I doubt my memories. The neighborhood has changed so much, has become so mainstream, so sanitized, that it’s hard to imagine the grime, the crime, the pulse and blood and creativity and insanity that was here before. You wanna know what it was like, what the real EV was like. This was it.