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Filmmaker turns lens to Village Green very idea that when you move together, you’ll be a better team, you’ll be able to resolve conflict, Sarah Friedland, an indepen- be more efficient, etc. And that dent Brooklyn-based filmmaker, same movement exercises that has set her sights on transform- could be used to help students ing the Valley Stream’s Village get to know each other can be Green into the central shooting used by a multinational corporalocation for her lattion to be more effiest film project: cient,” Friedland “Trust Exercises.” said. Friedland’s short Friedland, alongexperimental films side her lean producprovide a curious tion crew, are looklens into what she ing to enlist local describes as the community mem“choreography of bers to perform in our everyday life,” the film as fictional peeling back the layoffice workers on a ers of how even our fictional office most mundane retreat occurring in movements reveal the Village Green, insights about the where they will be culture and charac- SARAh led through a series ter of our sociopolit- fRIEdlANd of outside teamical lives. building and trust Independent “Trust Exercises” exercises. A stark will be the final filmmaker feature of her films installment of her is the candid, trilogy on movement exercises, unscripted movement, and the focusing, as the name implies, on physical knowledge of the space the physical patterns and chore- that locals bring to the perforographies of trust and team- mance. She said she hopes Valley building exercises practiced Stream residents will enter a across modern offices, group familiar community space with retreats and other congrega- a new sense of playful intimacy tions. and discovery, letting their natu“I’m really interested in the Continued on page 11
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JoSEPh ByNUM, fAR left, manager of radiology, Sean Maraj, director of radiology, and Monique Walker, supervisor of radiology, in front of the Lotus Max imaging machine.
LIJ first in the nation to use new imaging technology By JUAN lASSo jlasso@liherald.com
Earlier this year, Valley Stream Long Island Jewish Hospital, a Northwell Health institution, became the first in the country to use a new imaging technolog y that delivers enhanced patient care and streamlines the diagnostic imaging process with better outcomes for patients, according to hospital officials. The LUMINOS Lotus Max is a remote-controlled, two-in-one fluoroscopy and radiography imaging system enabling
medical staff to conduct two traditionally separate imaging tests with one machine and quickly switch between them in a truly integrative way. The radiography component of the machine provides still X-ray images of structural damage done to the body such as broken bones, whereas the fluoroscopy component provides something like an X-ray movie, presenting a moving two-dimensional image of the body’s internal systems at work to help pinpoint where and when they
stop working, such as gastrointestinal and esophageal issues, including troubles with swallowing and speaking. “So, for example, you drink a liquid that’s visualized under X-ray called barium, and we’re actually able to see it go through your entire system. That’s usually to see if you’re having difficulty swallowing,” said Sean Maraj, the imaging services director. But the technology goes further than saving patients on imaging appointments and Continued on page 9
’m really interested in the very idea that when you move together, you’ll be a better team.