Posts Tagged ‘homless nation’
Le Montrealais: hello everyone, i am israel. i live in the east end of montreal. with a dog and a mentally ill neighbour. both of whom are my best friends. i walk around with them a lot and take shots of the city thinking it has some hidden message to say to me. that is the size of things over my way. i hope you can share in my world through city spk.
Vancouver - Downtown Eastside
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Vignettes of the disenfranchised and dispossessed who call Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside neighbourhood their home. From the blog of filmmaker Austin Andrews.
Also, a related video from Homeless Nation a web based project of the NFB , a group of Eastside residents speak out about homelessness.
Dope sick and broke, Phil “gets better” in the alley behind Insite, the government-funded supervised injection site. He doesn’t like shooting in the alleys, where police take a harder stance, but would rather take the chance than queue for a spot inside. “Ten minutes is a long time to wait when you’ve got heroin in your hands.” The high is gone in another ten.
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