A short film by Jennie Livingston (of Paris Is Burning fame) about an incident I and the people interviewed in the film witnessed during the winter of 2003, a man who fell through the ice in Prospect Park Lake.
It turned out that the man, whose body was recovered a week after he fell through, was a Honduran Merchant Marine (I don’t recall his legal status) who was all alone here and who had been living in a homeless shelter. Therefore, there were some indications it was a suicide and not just stupidity (that would be indicated by the fresh tracks in the snow on the lake ice that appeared after it was known that someone had fallen through). Jennie, whose dog Noodles was a regular at the park, knew that several of us had witnessed this, so she turned to the dog walkers when her attempts at finding someone who knew Miguel Flores, the man who fell through the ice, had failed.
I wasn’t able to stick around long enough the day she was filming to give an interview, but you can see me (and Junebug!) in the opening shot.
It’s one of the short films at Sundance this year, and had been on PBS’s P.O.V. series and in the Lincoln Center Film Festival. This is the first time I’ve seen it, though.
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This is so awful of me, but behind the woman in the first interview two dogs are humping.
Yes, I laughed at that, too. That’s Teddy humping Kirby. If they’re not humping each other, they’re wrestling.
In a very heterosexual, Greco-Roman way, of course.
I love animals.
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