News from Eye Am

~New Year News from Eye Am~

Eye Am will no longer air on Manhattan Neighborhood Network regularly. Instead we are focusing our efforts on further developing the screening series that we curate at Anthology Film Archives.

* If you would like to submit work or host a screening in your community please email vkereszi@earthlink.net. (Lengths under 60 minutes are excepted, and there is no entry fee.)












photo: Lisa Kereszi

March 2nd 2010 @ 7pm
www.victoriakereszi.net/steadygrind
www.newfilmmakers.bside.com/2010/schedule/day/2010-05-19#tabs

A STEADY GRIND (digital video, 60:00) is a portrait of Eloyse Kereszi, a fiery grandmother with a mouth like a sailor, who runs Joe's Junkyard in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Eloyse inherited her husband's 54-year-old business in 1991 when he died of a heart attack on the junkyard soil. He was preparing to have heart surgery, but walked out of the hospital with his IV still attached and went to the junkyard for his final day of work. At this time Eloyse was 60 years old, but retirement was not an option due to thousands of dollars of tax debt, her failing health, and her living son's financial dependence on the business. For over a decade, she maintained faith in the family's ability to overcome these hardships, but as she slipped further into tax debt and ill health, Eloyse began to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband and sons, and was faced with the decision to sell the junkyard.

Eloyse is my grandmother.

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Edited by Victoria Kereszi & Penny Lane
Still Photography by Lisa Kereszi
Sound mix by Jesse Stiles
Music by Chuck Stern, C. Ryder Cooley, & The Darklings

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