Urban Growth


Nate Dorr & Nathan Kensinger | 2020 | 13 min

For more than 40 years, a collection of abandoned mansions have been hidden inside a wild growing forest in the heart of Brooklyn. But in a quick-developing city, no place is forgotten for long.
WORLD PREMIERE at Doc NYC (November 2020)
Press in Untapped Cities (November 2020)
NEW JERSEY PREMIERE at the Princeton Environmental Film Festival (April 13 - 19, 2021)
Shoreline Change, Art at the Blue Line at South Street Seaport, New York (July 14 - Aug 2, 2021)
IN-PERSON PREMIERE at the Rockaway Film Festival (September 14, 2021)
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE at the Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival (October 17, 2021)
Showing at the Lund International Architecture Festival (October 2021)
Part of Shoreline Change with Nathan Kensinger at UnionDocs (May 22, 2022)
Screening in the Maritime Film Festival at City Lore (August 25, 2022)

WIP presented in Shoreline Change, Works on Water House, New York (August 2019)
Guerrilla installation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (October 2019)
Installation documentation online on Gothamist (October 2019)
Installation documentation online in Works on Water no.16 (spring 2020)
Updated installation film in Brooklyn Utopias, Old Stone House, Brooklyn (August 2020)
Discussed on Navy Yard Neighbor (September 2020)



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