Film
Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island
2021 · 10m · History
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Overview
Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Black cultural producers of the time, including Riley, the film reimagines what we know about Negro Coney Island and its legacy with New York City’s still active potter’s field, Hart Island.
Cast
Ricky Goldman
Solomon Riley
Selamawit Worku
Elizabeth Riley
Rayly Aquino
Harold Curtis Brown
Moses Jeune
Jimmie Daniels
Crackhead Barney
Florence Mills
Terrance Livingston Jr.
James Van Der Zee
Crew
- Ayanna DozierDirector
Details
- Release date
- June 4, 2021
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- History
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