Stadium Status from Internets Celebrities on Vimeo.

In October we ran a post on the Internets Celebrities attempts at crowd-sourcing their film Stadium Status.  Stadium Status is a documentary  that explores the rush of new sports stadiums in NYC.  Given that new stadiums are built every year and the private businesses that own them benefit from huge sums of public money for their creation, the Internet Celebrities: Rafi Kam, Casimir Nozkowski, and Dallas Penn wanted to ask one simple question:

Are we getting our money’s worth?

As you can well imagine Stadium Status examines the forthcoming Barclay’s Arena, future home of the Brooklyn Nets.  Since the film was produced after Citi Field and the new Yankee Stadium were complete, it’s in the scenes featuring the opposing sides in the Atlantic Yards battle where Kam, Nozkowski and Penn show their growth as filmmakers.  Already well versed in delivering men on the street satire and punditry, the Internet Celebrities step aside and let the Atlantic Yards antagonists speak for themselves.  A particular rich scene finds a worn out Daniel Goldstein, Devevlop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn founder, and the last Atlantic Yards holdout, making his case one last time to halt Atlantic Yards. A somewhat conspicuous omission from this film is mention of Ebbets Field, and the Brooklyn Dodgers as a whole.  Not only because former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley made a similar pitch to build a stadium where Atlantic Yards is soon to be erected.  Ebbets Field might have also been worth a mention because ironically it’s legacy is now being defined as a public housing project.

Stadium Status had its world premiere earlier this week at the Brooklyn Public Library, and was the recent subject of a New York Times profile.  The film is sure to be an internet sensation, and a worthwhile contribution to the ongoing debate concerning public financing of private enterprises (e.g stadiums).

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