Caesar's Park

Director: Sarah Price
TRT: 65 min

Eight neighbors, who have lived next to each other for more than 50 years warm up to the camera as they get to know their new neighbor, filmmaker Sarah Price.
Jeannie is a mid-seventies Polish war bride who playfully harasses the camera and neighbors with obscenities, while complaining that her time is running out. Next door to her is Tillie (94), who recently suffered a paralyzing stroke and is the mother of Lois (63) and Diane (57), sisters that have lived in the same house their entire lives and now take care of their mother. Next to them are Don and Dolores, an older married couple that met while working in the city water department. Another neighbor, Richard, is a disabled, recovering alcoholic who has found a new love for snapshot photography. On the other side of the neighborhood is Charles, a still-traumatized Vietnam veteran who can always be found sitting on his front porch with his guitar or harmonica.

Drifting through a year of seasonal interviews and over-the-fence activities, Caesar's Park is a meditative portrait of one Milwaukee neighborhood.