Cristina Costantini and Alfie Koetter’s short film “The Originals” follows a group of childhood friends, now in late middle age, as they recount growing up together in brownstone Brooklyn. Watch here.
“The Originals” re-creates a world of pranks and mischief, of neighborhood sports that transform stationary objects in the street into bases and home plate.
Once upon a time in Brooklyn, kids played stickball in the street until dinnertime, mothers and grandmothers took chairs outside to chat, and all the families knew one another. The neighborhood seemed like the whole world. This is how Matteo Ruggiero—or Matty, as he’s known to friends—one of the real-life subjects depicted in the animated short “The Originals,” remembers the block where he grew up, on Union Street in Carroll Gardens. “It was like a stadium,” he says. “Everything was there.
In the film, directed by Cristina Costantini and Alfie Koetter, the friends appear as paper-doll-like versions of themselves, animated using digitally produced puppets that move through a 3-D model of the old neighborhood. Koetter, an architect, created the model, and the pair played with light and color to distinguish present-day scenes from those from the past.
The result is a vivid film that plays out on an intricately detailed model of a single block of brownstone Brooklyn. The childhood friends, now in late middle age, remember not just the games they played but also the prevalence of organized crime that shaped the neighborhood, and, to some degree, their own lives. And they talk, of course, about how the neighborhood has changed, laughing about the influx of “yuppies” who don’t return hellos on the street.
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