A Place to Live

Irving Lerner

FPL and Frontier vet Lerner uses the device of a fictional mother and son to advocate for better homes for the maligned urban poor—who just need ‘a place to live’—transforming a Philadelphia Housing Association survey into an Academy award nominated short.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sessions

One Screening Only
25 Oct • 21:30 / 96’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / A House Is Not a Home

A Place to Live

Irving Lerner