Still from the opening of RITES OF PASSAGE
Through an unpacking of lived experience, this film explores how our own presence, and conversely, absence, can decide the version of a history we remember and call our own. Focusing on the Mercer Street Friends Center (MSFC), two points of view narrate this unveiling: that of Emerson Simmons, community organizer and former high school counselor, and LloydJohnson, Trenton activist and teacher in the earliest days of the MSFC.
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro.
This work was made in Professor Purcell Carson and Alison Isenberg’s class, The Sixties: Documentary, Youth, and the City at Princeton University.
Excerpt from RITES OF PASSAGE
Still from RITES OF PASSAGE of Trenton archives; housed in the Trentoniana Room at the Trenton Public Library
Still from Emerson Simmons' interview in RITES OF PASSAGE
Still from the opening of RITES OF PASSAGE
Still from RITES OF PASSAGE
