District 33 is an algorithmic film that centers on the gentrification of the Greenpoint, Brooklyn waterfront and the role of art and artists in that process. Xenia is an artist-turned-detective, with a forensic ear for sonic clues. Red is her arch-nemesis, a real-estate tycoon who thinks of himself as a social sculptor, carving out the zoning laws that favor the one percent of the one percent. JM is the revenant of a Brooklyn painter who drowned himself in the East River in 1906, after being evicted from his apartment on Manhattan Avenue. London runs an upscale gallery with questionable financial ties. District 33 focuses on the dialectical contradictions at work in gentrification, particularly the aesthetics of finance and the anti-aesthetics of artmaking. Driven by a propulsive electronic score and rhythmic speech, the performers include Christina Campanella, John Rose, Michael Chinworth, and Saori Tsukada with cinematography by Damian Calvo.
District 33 was commissioned by Harvestworks, NYC and premiered at the 2022 Governors Island Exhibition in NYC.