In this project, we are creating a series of cinematic maps. One example is the “Bill’s Taco” video above. Originally started by Mexican American man, now operated by a Korean-American woman, this restaurant is a multi-generational African-American place so important that people still drive hours to go back to Bill’s after decades of economic displacement. Things we learned through cinematic mapping was the awkward beauty of different ethnicities being themselves together in the same space, the importance to people of some places not upgrading and redeveloping, that authentic ethnic places in LA are often co-produced across ethnicities such that we all have a stake in creating places of belonging for each group.
