Eric Hynes

Age: 44

Occupation: Curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image who with the filmmaker Robert Greene organized the series “Workers of the World: Immigrant Labor on Screen,” running this weekend

“A lot of the programming that I try to pursue tends to be, if not straight up works of nonfiction, then works that kind of play around with notions of nonfiction. Though there’s great programming of that throughout the city, for this community in Queens, I hadn’t seen that approach yet.

“This year in particular felt like a really important time to focus on films that honor the immigrant labor force in the United States. But film allows you to kind of widen the scope beyond whatever a political moment could be. So even in a small program like this, we didn’t want to just do American immigrant labor. We wanted to also bring in “La Commune,” about France in the 19th century, and “Behemoth,” which is a contemporary Chinese film.

“Having worked weekends that are holiday weekends before, I actually think that probably the best part of my job is being present with an audience. This is who you do it for. You do all that work during the week to put on a show — you want to be there for the show.

“Watching these 35-millimeter prints on the screen and then also to be watching an audience react to it, and then having an audience want to have a conversation with you and the filmmaker and the curator afterward — that’s what it’s all for. Honestly, I’d love to be on vacation for the rest of it. But I’m happy to be working over a weekend like this when you get to see the magic happen.” — As told to Sara Aridi