‘Behind the Door’ captures the out of the ordinary domestic spaces and characters that inhabit a warehouse conversion facing an uncertain future.

At the center of this story is a four stories high, hulking, century-old redbrick building built just before 1915. It produced cosmetics, cotton, rayon and vinyl for nearly sixty years before closing in the late 1980s. 

Williamsburg was a hub for manufacturing back then and it quickly developed into a desirable area in New York City. In the past fifteen years this part of town has witnessed a fast-paced gentrification process aggressively replacing historical buildings with new luxury condos. The former factory was converted into residential units in the early 1990s and is one of the few landmarks which has survived. 

In an overpopulated metropolis - and a swiftly changing neighbourhood, intimate portraits, candid moments and still life images take viewers on an anthropological visual journey through a rapidly vanishing urban way of living.