Confrontation and Community in “7lbs 8oz”

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In her stop-motion short, the filmmaker Yoo Lee mines her own experience of moving to Jersey City to explore what makes a neighborhood. Watch here.

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The warm and fuzzy world of the film is replete with subtle details that reward a second glance.

About halfway through the film “7lbs 8oz,” Anthony—a gruff neighborhood fixture with hairy feet, an ostentatious gold chain, and aJersey accent—sidles up to a new mother who’s moving onto the block and asks a question that gives her pause. “How much does she weigh?” he says, jabbing a mottled finger in the direction of her crying infant. When she reluctantly tells him, he pulls out a phone and instructs the person on the other end of the line to “put me down for seven-zero-eight.

Inspired by the filmmaker Yoo Lee’s experience of moving to Jersey City, “7lbs 8oz” brings levity to weighty subjects and delights in subverting expectations. From the film’s first shot, of a sign graffitied to suggest that the neighborhood is “So FAR to New York City!,” it appears that the locals might be resisting the tides of gentrification by digging in their heels and declaring Eighth Street an island.

When Lee bought a house on the real Eighth Street, in 2006, her “really old-fashioned” neighbors didn’t know what to make of her, even calling her a “Chinaman” at first. But, with time, Lee came to a realization: “Their intention wasn’t to offend me,” she said. “Their intention was to engage with me.” Lee accepted their repeated offerings of homemade meatballs and brought them little cakes in return, she said. Eventually, she, too, became one of the locals.

After moving away from Jersey City, in 2017, Lee began to create animations to entertain her daughter, gravitating toward stories that starred the motley cast of characters she’d left behind on Eighth Street.

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I wondered where she ended up after leaving JC. This is wonderful!

she also created some wonderful political cartoons around education issues and politics in Jersey City.

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