Chronicling the changing fortunes of Red Hook, Brooklyn, A Hole in a Fence explores the complicated issues of development, class and identity facing one of New York City’s most unique neighborhoods.

It’s the story of a vanished homeless community and the young architect who documented it; of an urban farm run by local kids amidst a landscape of industrial decay; of young graffiti writers losing their stomping grounds; of the arrival of a controversial IKEA megastore; of a photographer’s vision of nature’s renewal; of the doomed struggle to save a rare part of the neighborhood’s working waterfront; and of a filmmaker’s discovery of a fleeting, hidden world on the other side of a rusty old fence.

“A world of surprising richness and tantalizingly ambiguous possibility. Uncommonly lyrical and soulful.”
- Godfrey Cheshire, Director of Moving Midway

“This is a sensitive, multilayered look at the complexities and tragicomedies of life in a neighborhood under seige.”- Tom Angotti, Director, Center for Community Planning & Development, Hunter College/CUNY