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A dream and a camera Filmmaker Yanis Carreto shows the world through her lens. Page 4.

what’s happening Screenings turn virtual as indie theaters adjust By Sam Sciarrotta

Things are starting to look up for some local movie theaters. A little bit, at least. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, it’s still a long road back. But venues like the Princeton Garden Theatre have learned to adapt—with a little help from loyal patrons. “On March 13 of last year when the first wave of closures started, we told our team we’d be back in two weeks, and we told our members ‘See you soon,’” said Chris Collier, the theater’s executive director. That didn’t pan out. They reevaluated a week later and then decided to do some long-range planning about a month into the the pandemic. “We really changed our view on things,” Collier said. “We planned for the worst case scenario and then doubled that. We didn’t anticipate things going back to normal anytime soon. That has pretty much come to pass.” Arts-adjacent industries—movie theaters, concert venues, musicians— had to pivot pretty quickly to stay afloat last spring. The Garden was no different. The theater has regularly hosted virtual screenings since last year, from arthouse films to Netflix watch parties with a corresponding live group chat on Discord. Independent, artful, international titles are regularly refreshed

the Princeton Garden theatre, an art film staple, has been closed since the start of the coVId-19 pandemic, but it has managed to get by with virtual events and patron support. and available to rent on the Garden’s website. “It’s the same content that would be screened if we were open to the public,” Collier said. “You can still have the feel of the theater even though you’re at home. Most of the titles we screen are not available on other streaming

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So, just where is (609)? We all know what the (609) area code is, but where is it exactly? It’s a good question, and one posed to us by a reader after we said, in our first edition of Six09, that we’d cover what’s happening across the region. The image at right answers the question, and as you might see, a good chunk of the state falls in the area code—from Lambertville up north to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. We’re the largest area code in New Jersey, and it includes parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, Camden, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties. It is home to places like Princeton, Trenton, Hammonton, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City. There’s a lot of ground to cover in (609), which we hope means plenty of stories that will help you explore your home turf. If you come across something that might be a good fit, send an email to ssciarrotta@communitynews.org. –Sam Sciarrotta

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platforms, so you can only get them through sites like ours.” And though those screenings are not necessarily paying the bills—Collier said they bring in “10s and 100s versus 100s and 1,000s”—they help keep the theater’s ideals afloat. “We’re still fulfilling our mission,”

Collier said. “It allows us to keep in touch with our patrons and let them know that we’re still around, and we’re still giving it a go.” Collier said the technological elements of home screenings can be a hurdle for some patrons, but, overall, they have been a success. “We don’t have to cancel events due to weather,” he said. “Seniors who might not want to go our at night are able to attend virtual events. It’s great to invite them in.” The Garden’s virtual screenings eventually evolved into Q&A and discussion events, one of the theater’s in-person signatures. The theater hosts online education events and collaborates with professors, film critics, directors and local staples like the Princeton University Art Museum. The guest will choose a film that patrons are invited to watch on their own time. A question and answer session over Zoom follows a couple of weeks later. These have been especially successful, Collier said. “The discussions in the theater are always great, but it is an ask of a person to come in, find parking, get tickets and get to their seat in time for the speaker’s introduction and the movie,” he said. “Then the movie ends and the discussion starts. You may have left the house at 6, but once the discussion starts at 9:30, people are starting to get antsy, thinking about the parking

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4SIX09 | February 2021

Through her lens Filmmaker Yanis Carreto channels nostalgia By Sam Sciarrotta

Loss—in all its forms—can be lifechanging. Just ask Yanis Carreto. In the minutes following a catastrophic hard drive crash in 2019, her mind was blank. She had just been about to publish her first short documentar y film when she stepped away from her computer for a few minutes. Carreto accidentally kicked over the hard drive when she came back to her desk. She lost ever ything. “I wasn’t savvy enough to know to backup the backup,” she said. “On there were family memories. My grandfather had passed, but I was a caregiver for him for 10 years. I had done a series of interviews with him just trying to get our family story down, and I lost all of that. The combination of what I thought my future could be, and these family memories, I was devastated. That night, I cried.” But out of that devastation came creation. Carreto had returned from a trip to Cuba few months prior. All she could think about immediately after losing years’ worth of photos and video footage was going back. “That night, I just wanted to escape,” she said. “I wanted to leave. I started looking and I said, ‘You know what, I’m not going to give up. I’m gonna do this, and I’m gonna do this right.’ I started looking at film schools, and one popped up that there was a school in Cuba. I saw that it was this world-renowned school, so I applied. I don’t know anything about it. I didn’t have any credits. I just had a dream to make something, and I want to learn.” Carreto was accepted to the Escuela International de Cine & TV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba, and she left a few weeks later. She came out of it with her first short documentary feature, Saudade. It’s been selected by four film festivals: New Filmmakers New York Film Festival, Mystic Film Festival (where it won an award for Best Documentary Film Editing), Chain NYC Film Festival and, most recently, the Garden State Film Festival, which is set for March 23-28 of this year. “I finished the film, and whenever you create something as an artist, you have these thoughts of I don’t know if this is good enough and I love this, it’s great,” she said. “You kind of vascillate back and forth. It’s been exciting.”

Lawrence-based filmmaker Yanis Carreto left a 14-year career in law enforcement to pursue her passion. Saudade is a word for a sense of melancholy, longing or nostalgia. The film tells Carreto’s story through that lens—”A budding filmmaker and hopeless nostalgic loses all of her life’s work, along with years of treasured family photos and home movies, in a swift computer accident. While grieving the loss and seeking a way to cope, she packs a bag and sets off for Cuba, where she recovers something she never even had—but somehow missed more than anything,” says the official description. Carreto was thrown headfirst into the filmmaking process almost immediately after she got to Cuba. She and her classmates spent a day or two inside the school learning about storylines, lighting and other foundational concepts. The next day, though, her professor opened the door and said “Go make a movie.” “I’m fumbling with all my gear, my cameras,” she said. “There are so many things. First of all, you’re in a country that is a step back in time. There are so many things you don’t know or understand. Luckily, I knew the language so I could get by. I’m looking at everything trying to figure out what I could make a movie about. After that first night, I’m coming home, I’m exhausted, I had no idea what I was doing. I can handle a camera because I’m a photographer as well, but with sound, you’re a one man crew in a foreign country trying to make something so you can pass your grade.”

Sundance Institute and the Edit CenShe figured it out, though. In the end, Carreto said, the sort of ter in Brooklyn, New York, in addifree-for-all nature of her time in film tion to her time at EICTV. She started to seriously pursue filmmaking school worked in her favor. “I would have completely over- after leaving a 14-year career in law thought,” she said. “Because of my enforcement to become a caregiver background in law enforcement, for her mother-in-law. Her curiosity and love for exploraI come from order, steps, guides, rules, you do this first. I would have tion, though, has been there since completely overthought everything she was a kid. She loved looking back and always described every step of the way. herself as a nostalgic You didn’t have time person. to think about proce“I was an only child dure and camera. You until I was about 8,” turned it on, you try ‘Nostalgia she said. “Always in to get the best light my room, always readyou can, you try to was always ing, always researchget the best sound my coping ing. To me the most and you document exciting part of what everything. Doing that mechanism.’ I do was the research there, I don’t think part. I love it. I love I could have made a reading. I was always film anywhere else. very curious, very You could’ve sent me nostalgic.” to California, HollyWhen she found herwood. I don’t know that I would have been able to make self taking care of her grandfather in something like this as a first-time her early 20s, Carreto leaned even further into that part of herself. filmmaker.” “I had to do a lot of things—at The Cuban town she studied in— San Antonio de los Baños—also my age, you don’t take care of your played a major part in what Saudade grandparents,” she said. “Being eventually became. And it helped her with them, I think because they grapple with the sense of loss that still were older, nostalgia played a big part. Learning to cope with some of plagued her. “I started connecting with Saint these things, I always say that nosAnthony, who is the patron saint of talgia was my coping mechanism. I lost things,” she said. “It was just use it to get through the day a lot. such an appropriate name for this All of that I think sort of plays a part town that I discovered had lost so in how the things I’m approaching much. This was a beautiful river town, now and the niche that I work in restaurants, food, very vibrant. Now now with memories and exploring it’s dried up and sewage is literally all of that.” That’s manifested itself throughflowing down the street. Theaters are closed. Everything is closed down. out every step of her career, espeThey’ve lost so much, but the town cially through her blog, the Hopeless is still just so hopeful and alive. The Nostalgic. Carreto chronicles her extensive idea of the missing and the found and finding the happy place in between, travel stories—both solo and with her it was almost like a cathartic experi- husband—through photos and blog posts. They’ve traveled to Europe and ence that I had.” Carreto is mostly self taught, Asia for months at a time, but she’s though she has also studied at the also written about places a little closer

to home, like the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables, Florida, Sleepy Hollow, New York and Lucy the Elephant in Margate. “We’ve been traveling for three years,” she said. “I’ve always documented with photos. Now, not being able to travel as much, I want to get some of my old photo stories on there.” As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, though, travel has been limited, so Carreto has focused her energy on upcoming film projects. One that is in the works tells the stor y of the South Carolina Button King, who showed off his massive collection of button-covered items to late nights hosts like Johnny Carson and David Letterman. He was an insominiac, Carreto said, and he started covering items with buttons to fill his sleepless nights— first a suit, then his guitar. A hearse. His own casket. Though he has since died, Carreto was able to talk to family members and friends. “It turned out that the reason he couldn’t sleep was that he was poisoned at DuPont, where he worked.,” she said. “DuPont has a long history of environmental issues. He was basically forced to go into this tank without any gear and clean it out. They tried to hide it by sending them to their private doctors, making them take out his teeth so there was no evidence he had this thing in his system.” Carreto discovered all of this

through her own fascination with buttons. She’s kept a jar of buttons for over 25 years, which led her to button clubs and societies both local and nationwide. “Everyone else is obviously older than me, in their 80s and 90s,” she said. “They said, ‘You know there’s a button king in South Carolina.’ So I kind of went down there to check it out as a button ambassador. I fell in love with the story.” And that’s a Carreto hallmark, she said—connecting with something on a personal level and turning it into a story. But you should expect nothing less from the Hopeless Nostalgic. “When I first started studying filmmaking, I was told you can’t make a film about nostalgia,” she said. “That’s one thing I said they’re dead wrong on. I’m going to prove that. I may not have proven it yet, but I’m going to prove them wrong.” She wants to do that not only for herself, but for her subjects, too. “Because it’s nostalgia based, a lot of these people are elderly, and you don’t know when they’re not going to be around anymore,” she said. “Places closing down or already closed down. It’s gotta be done. It has to be done. These people and these places might not be around for much longer.” Contact SAM SCIARROTTA: ssciarrotta@ communitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. 121.

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The power of New Jersey’s Native American art By Dan Aubrey

The large earth-toned pots on display on the lowest level of the New Jersey State Museum look deceivingly simple—even dull. But do not be fooled. They are the canvases for perhaps the most important and mystifying pieces of New Jersey art: designs created by the state’s indigenous people, the LenniLenape (translated as Original People). In short, these vessels, created between 200 and 900 C.E. and in the permanent museum exhibition, are guides to both an ancient and lost tradition and the nature of art. The designs also have a direct connection to the Trenton area. To put the pottery and tradition in context, consider the following note regarding the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark (AFNHL) district in the Hamilton and Trenton region —formerly known as the Hamilton Trenton Marsh—where much of the NJSM’s important designed pottery was found: “Evidence of American Indian occupations at the AFNHL spans the time from roughly 13,000 years ago into the 18th century, well after Europeans had explored and established colonies in the area.” The words belong to Michael Stewart, a New Jersey-based member of Temple University’s anthropology department. One of the current archaeologists

specializing on the region’s Native American history, Stewart has produced reports for the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office, consulted with Hunter Research in Trenton and the New Jersey State Museum, and has a long history of engagement with the Abbott Farm district. The farm is named after Charles Conrad Abbott, a 19th-century archaeologist whose excavations on his and surrounding property only scratched the surface of the rich archaeological site and caused international interest in the region. The site’s ongoing importance earned it National Landmark Status in 1976. While documents ranging from the Colonial era—such as William Penn’s accounts—to current historic and archaeological studies provide a trail of facts and details, little is known about the internal lives of the Lenapes or their thoughts on creating art. And while the Lenapes held annual rituals that combined percussive sound, the retelling of stories and the use of materials with symbolic imagery, few objects remain for study. The reason, according to New Jersey archaeologists, is that the objects were generally on wood, fabric, bark, or other organic materials that decayed from exposure or use. What remains are expressions created in pottery and stone. Stewart, who has written exten-

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sively on Lenape pottery, says the use of pottery started gradually and was generally plain. Then there was the appearance of beautiful and now mystifying designs. The NJSM highlights that beauty with an exhibition text that says, “As early as 1903, pottery types associated with the Abbott Farm Site were recognized as the most elaborately decorated pottery in the Northeast.” So much so that in 1911 Ernest Volk, a German archaeologist working for Harvard University’s Peabody Museum, wrote, “I have found (in Trenton) the most beautiful patterns of fine lines that I have ever seen east of the Alleghenies.” The museum uses that quote in its permanent exhibition. Stewart says Late Woodland potters in the Trenton area (500 to 1000 CE) were potentially influenced through their interaction and trading with people living in the Lower Delaware Valley and other regions. Yet that doesn’t explain why they embellished their work with their noted aesthetic approach. While the NJSM has been an important early and ongoing participant in the Abbott Farm excavations and pottery studies, museum archaeologist Dorothy Cross (1902 to 1972) is the unsung heroine of the endeavor. Her accomplishments include excavating and documenting the Abbott site and unearthing the large pot at the center of the museum’s Native American exhibition. She also cataloged and printed the district’s pottery designs in her 1957 book, “Archaeology of New Jersey.” Here is how Stewart puts Cross in context: “During the Depression era Dr. Dorothy Cross directed major excavations in the AFNHL and throughout New Jersey with funds and people from the Works Progress Administration. The large scale of her investigations

during the 1930s and 1940s is basically unmatched by most archaeological projects today. Although her interpretations may no longer be current, her data and publications continue to be a valuable tool for ongoing research.” After examining various remains and fragments, Cross notes the following about the Lenape designs: “Favorite motifs are ticked and cross-ticked lines and zigzags, often combined in horizontal rows with the ticked line above or below the zigzags. Ticked lines are also used to outline elements in the few more complicated designs such as a frieze of triangles. Usually the ticked line is placed over the paddled-net surface finish even though the surface under the rest of the design has been smoothed. Multiple rows of horizontal or vertical incisions, a band of cross-hatching bordered by horizontal lines, and rude interlocking zigzags frequently are placed below the rim. Punctuations appear only in a single horizontal row just below the rim.” With Cross’ factual details of the designs and Volk’s exclamation regarding their beauty, a couple of natural questions arise: Why were they made and do they symbolize anything? And while there is no reliable information regarding the reasons and no known individual with Lenape heritage who can provide verbally passed down information, clues have been offered by archaeologists. Some suggest the pottery represented status. That includes Stewart who, as one writer reports, “has theorized that these vessels were related to feasting and public ceremony related to activities (or made possible by activities) at sites of intensive resource exploitation, and that their limited distribution is indicative of their role in strictly defined public ceremonies or activities.” NJSM curator Gregory Lattanzi, another of the current generation of those building and maintaining Lenape

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The Jennings Petroglyph is hidden in plain sight at Seton Hall University’s library. It was discovered in 1965 on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River across from Dingmans Ferry. The symbols’ meaning remains a mystery.

The centerpiece of the Native American exhibit at the State Museum. even though “we cannot know for certain what function it served prehistoric Lenape Peoples or the meaning its crafters intended to signal.” Yet scholars have accumulated information regarding the significance of the designs. For example, archaeologists with the Pennsylvania Historic Commission, who also deal the same Native American cultures along the Delaware River, say petroglyphs are a form of symbolic communication with an important message. “We now know that they are not a form of prehistoric graffiti as was widely believed in the past. For Native Americans to carve in rock with stone tools required too much effort to be done without serious intention. These locations were probably important, possibly sacred, places prior to the placement of the images. The petroglyphs probably formalized and verified their significance in the cosmology of Native American belief systems.” They add that the petroglyphs conveyed information, like tribal boundaries and residents. Images could include “humans, animals and birds, their footprints and tracks. Other more symbolic designs include circles, spirals, and dots (cupules), as well as figures that can be described as human or animallike but changed (anthropomorphic or zoomorphic), or even part animal, part human. Still other designs represent conventionalized religious, mythological, or supernatural symbols.” The writers also say the petroglyph sites “were almost certainly sacred places where people came to communicate with the supernatural. Some sites may have been places where medicine men, community, or spiritual leaders went to meditate to receive visions or guidance to lead or heal their people. Some of the symbols may have had special significance for hunting or fishing or for solving family or tribal problems.” Edward Lenik, an 86-year-old New Jersey archaeologist and author of several books on rock art, including the 2002 “Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands,” says via email, “The Jennings Petroglyph is the only non-portable site found along the entire Delaware River Valley in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The anthropomorphic images on the rock

are certainly unique to this area. There are 11 figures with sexual appendages with four having uplifted arms. Two with arms extended down and four with arms extended horizontally. I believe that these human figures represent shamans who were seeking supernatural power from the spirits (skyward) and earthward. The various depictions of humans on the Jennings stone strongly suggest that several different shamans carved these images, depicting their visions and encounters with the spirits.” Asked how the images relate to an argument several prominent archeologists propose about designs being entopic, or generated internally, Lenik says, “The neuropsychological model is an analytical tool used to determine whether certain geometric shapes are the result of hallucinations or visions experienced by individuals during an altered state of consciousness. “Many typical images such as grids, cupules, concentric circles and spirals, zigzag lines, etc. appear on non-portable

petroglyph sites and on portable artifacts found in the northeast region. I believe they were produced by shamans or other vision seekers. Some, however, could simply be decorative elements on artifacts or pottery and unrelated to A.S.C. (altered states of consciousness).” That later point may include the NJSM pottery that bears the designs Lenik mentions, described by Cross and supported by Lattanzi, who says, “Typically shamans or religious leaders would not be working with pottery or have anything to do with it.” While time may bring more insight into the meaning or reason for the designs and expression, the works are as significant as any site in the world. They connect with the inner life of those who once lived here for millennia and are now gone, leaving traces of their spirit on pottery and stone. And those objects with their secrets in the NJSM, Seton Hall Library, under the ground and in the Delaware River can cast spells that last a lifetime.

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Tuna tartare spring rolls and a mai tai at Kuo Social, the new restaurant in Robbinsville’s Town Center. (Photo by Hunter Kohl.) Santino’s Bar One, Poseidon, and Centro Grille, which occupied the space from 2014 until it closed last year. “Over the years I’ve been to that space before, and when somebody mentioned to me that it was available,

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the restaurant business. “I was just there all the time, you know, the waiters and cooks and hostesses were all basically my babysitters,” he says. “My dad had a big office I would go spend time in. My mother studied accounting in college in Taiwan, she did the accounting.” The restaurant was as successful in Manalapan as it had been in Richmond. Kuo went away to study hotel and restaurant management at Penn State University, after which he forged a career working in hotels and restaurants around the world. Stops include Thomas Keller’s Per Se, Danny Meyer’s 11 Madison Park, the Hotel Shangri-La in Shanghai, the Four Seasons in New York, and of course, Peking Pavilion. It was while he was working at Peking Pavilion in 2004 that the restaurant suffered a devastating fire. The date was Dec. 26, and he was on his way to Charlottesville (Virginia) with his boyfriend at the time to celebrate Christmas with his boyfriend’s family. “On our way down, our wine salesman called me and told me the restaurant was on fire, in broad daylight, right in the middle of service, The restaurant wasn’t packed, but it happened during lunch and there were probably at least 50, 60 people in the restaurant. Thank God the managers were able to get everyone out in time,” Kuo says. The Kuos hired Rafael Alvarez to redesign the restaurant. Alvarez had designed Shun Lee Palace in New York City, Kuo’s uncle’s restaurant, and his uncle suggested they hire him for their post-fire renovation. “We kind of gave him carte blanche,” Kuo says. “My dad [told Alvarez], ‘It’s called Peking Pavilion and I want it to look like a really beautiful, modern Asian pavilion.’ And that’s what he designed.” When it came time to design his own restaurant, Kuo knew that he would hire Alvarez again. The result is a striking and elegant big-city-style interior, featuring a cool bar, bold prints, gold accents, and monkey light fixtures. In his career, Kuo has worked in both the front and the back of the house, so he understands the important role that service plays in the dining experience. That’s why he brought Mike Cuccia, formerly of Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Forrestal Village, to Kuo Social to be his general manager. “It is super important that there is really great service,” Kuo says. “And that comes from the top down. I’m very big on morale. If you have good morale, you have happy servers and cooks who are going to take care of the guests.” Kuo Social, 2360 Route 33, Suite 106, Robbinsville NJ 08691. Phone: (609) 208-9988. Open Monday through Thursday from noon to 10 p.m., Friday from noon to 11 p.m., Saturday from 4 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 3 to 9 p.m. Takeout, delivery, dine-in.

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“Lo mein is very easy to make, but it’s also very easy to f--- up,” Kuo says. “You can sauté it in a wok for 60 seconds and throw some soy sauce on it and call it lo mein, but there are different techniques, different herbs and spices we use. When you’re making, say, pork lo mein, there is a little bit of grapeseed oil we put in so it doesn’t clump together. With our fried rice, we flip it 100 times. We want it to have that golden toastiness with the first bite.” The same attention to detail goes into making what is perhaps the restaurant’s signature dish, Peking Duck. It’s a dish that is also featured at Kuo’s parents’ restaurant, Peking Pavilion in Manalapan. “That duck is very near and dear to my heart because our restaurant is called Peking Pavilion, so our Peking duck better be pretty good,” he says. Kuo says high end Rational Combi ovens give Kuo Social an edge with its Peking duck. “Yang knows how to use those ovens,” he says. “He knows how to make that skin really really crispy and make sure the meat is good, not 90%, but 110% of the time.” Kuo says all of these little things add up to making a big difference. “That’s why we’ve been successful, with people who come to the restaurant saying, ‘Whoa, that’s really good,’” Kuo says. “That’s why over the past 45 years, my parents restaurant has been so successful. The consistency that we have been able to do at Peking Pavilion and here at Kuo Social, it means a lot to our customers.” *** Kuo basically grew up in the restaurant business. He was born in Philadelphia in 1971. His parents, Mike and Corrina, had emigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1969. In 1975, Mike and Corrina opened a restaurant, Peking Pavilion, in Richmond, Virginia. In 1983, they closed the Richmond restaurant and moved to Monmouth County. Peking Pavilion found a new home on Route 33 just west of Freehold Borough, where it opened in 1984 and where it still operates today. Kuo, a teenager when Peking Pavilion reopened in New Jersey, could Contact JOE EMANSKI: jemanski@comhardly help but get indoctrinated into munitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. 120.

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