Captured is an incredible portrait of New York’s LES and Clayton Patterson, who has chronicled it through 30 years of tumult and cleanup.

Now screening for free online at SnagFilms, the documentary stills the neighborhood’s third-world years, when the Lower East Side was a laboratory for vice, loco art, and counterculture thought. With his wife Elsa Rensaa, Patterson used the camera (and, later, camcorder) to record the era’s radical spirit and populace, its drag queens, druggies, punks, and young ruffians.
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