On the South Bronx Waterfront

The film is taking place in a moment where the artist Linda Cunningham is in the middle of doing a big art piece on canvas about the Bronx Waterfront. This subject gives us the opportunity of understanding the relationship between this artist and her surroundings. She talks about her arrival in the Bronx, while we discover with her the visual reality of the neighbourhood : waste lands, poor people, industry and trucks everywhere, and the devastation of the Waterfront itself. Representing these architectures and places as if they were ruins, even the most recent of them, she shows their « special kind of beauty » as she says, and takes us to have a different perception of this place, our place, the so-called world. Little by little, we penetrate the generous and modest way of Linda to be, and to be an artist.