If it wasn’t for us, essential workers couldn’t go to work : a film on 24/7 daycare Adrian Horton
There is rarely such a thing as a good night’s sleep for Deloris and Patrick Hogan, the operators of Dee’s Tots daycare in the NYC suburb of New Rochelle, New York. For nearly 30 years, the Hogans have transformed their home into a 24/7 childcare and community center, a relentless and wearying schedule that reflects the increasingly impossible choices faced by the parents, often single mothers of color, who entrust their children to Dee’s Tots.
Through the Night, a warmly attentive, tender documentary by the African-Dominican film-maker Loira Limbal, observes the critical and under-covered role of 24/7 daycare through the community-sustaining work – hugs and home for children and strained parents alike – at the Hogans’ perpetually brimming house. Women lauded during the pandemic as “essential workers” – nurses, home health aides, grocery store c
‘Assassins’
Many, many news cycles ago way back in 2017 a strange story surfaced from southeast Asia. At a Malaysian airport, two women killed the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by rubbing his eyes with a deadly chemical agent. When the authorities nabbed them, the assassins were shocked and insisted they’d just been hired to pull a prank.
Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave’s documentary “Assassins” tries to get to the bottom of what actually happened that day. The filmmakers scrutinize the video evidence, document the trial and interview people who know these two women as well as people who understand Korean history and politics.
Through the Night, a warmly attentive, tender documentary by the Afro-Dominican film-maker Loira Limbal, observes the critical and under-covered role of 24/7 daycare through the community-sustaining work â hugs and home for children and strained parents alike â at the Hogansâ perpetually brimming house. Women lauded during the pandemic as âessential workersâ â nurses, home health aides, grocery store clerks â power through graveyard shifts and benefits-less jobs to maintain a precarious stability in Americaâs ever-suffocating economy; Deloris and Patrick, known as âNunuâ and âPopPop,â alternate sleeping shifts with attention, hugs and love for the children on brightly colored cots in their living room.