HBO Voyeur Project on Ludlow Street

Yes, it's just an advertisement (for a new online, and On Demand, series) but it's pretty cool nonetheless. On the side of a building overlooking a parking lot on Ludlow Street, the marketing folks from HBO are screening a five-minute short film that peers into the homes and, as it turns out, the stupendously eventful lives, of the residents inside.

To whit: in one apartment a woman in labor is blocked from exiting the building by a couch-move gone awry, and so the frantic couple has to crash their neighbors' strip-poker game and deliver the baby there. Across the hall and one flight down, a woman ties up her lover... and then starts sharpening her knives. On the ground floor an elderly woman says goodbye to what we can only presume is her husband of many years, and then we watch as her ghost drifts up through the building and out through the roof.

There's a lot more happening—I watched it three times and still couldn't follow it all—and it's all very (and appropriately) broadly played and melodramatic, and it's totally not worth a special trip, but if you're in the neighborhood tonight, Sunday July 8th—the LAST NIGHT it's showing—it's definitely worth stopping by for a viewing. Or three.

The HBO Voyeur Project will be screened for one more night, Sunday, July 8, from 9 until 11, in the parking lot on Ludlow Street, just south of Delancey (the same place, by the way, where Shakespeare in the Parking Lot begins its performances of Romeo and Juliet next week).