The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is teaming up with Loisaida Center and ABC No Rio to present a collection of films documenting activist-driven occupations in New York City over the last five decades. Their ninth annual film festival hosted in local community gardens is titled, “Steal This City: NYC Occupations on Film,” and will feature a curated collection of films and guest speakers, kicking off on Thursday, September 9 at 7:00 PM and running through Sunday, September 12. Without legal permission, the group transformed an empty lot into a continually mutating landscape of sculptural anarchy. The garden served as a free place for social events, exhibitions, concerts, performances and festivals for almost three years, until it was bulldozed in the fall of 1987. The lack of restraint of Cantsin’s filmmaking adds a dramatic beauty to this rare, poetic documentary.