23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Greene Street

Greene Street

Country: USA
Year: 2004
Duration: 21\'


New York is often depicted on screen as a place bristling with money, energy, and excitment. That is there to some extend, but there is another side to New York as well, and the four works that comprise this program offer such an alternative view. One that focuses on ordinary daily activities, which like the strata of society engaged in them, remains largely grey and transparent – buying and selling at an indoor market; eating or relaxing at lunch counters; riding underground trains, the hustle and bustle of New York City street life; the energy of light and color caressing the urban landscape; moments of repose and quite delight. Deceptively casual and somewhat reminiscent of early cinema “Actualities”, these works are nevertheless also tempered by a responsiveness to the pleasures of vision and reflection. The footage was originally recorded on 16mm in the early 1970s, but not edited and shaped into these four independent, yet interrelated pieces until 2004.                    

Biography

film director

Ernie Gehr

Ernie Gehr (Milwaukee, Usa, 1943), began making films in the 8mm format in the 1960s and has established himself as one of the true masters of New American Cinema. His films have screened internationally, including retrospectives at the MOMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the San Francisco Cinematheque. He has also taught cinema at the American Film Insitute, the University of California and the School of the Art of Chicago.

FILMOGRAFIA

Morning (1968), Wait (1968), Reverberation (1969), Transparency (1969), History (1970), Field (Short Version) (1970), Field (1970), Serene Velocity (1970), Three (1970), Still (1969-71), Eureka (1974), Shift (1972-74), Behind the Scenes (1975), Table (1976), Untitled (1977), Hotel (1979), Mirage (1981), Part One (1981), Signal-Germany on the Air (1982-85), Listen (1986-91), Rear Window (1986-91), This Side of Paradise (1991), Side/Walk/Shuttle (l991), For Daniel (1996), Cotton Candy (2002), Carte da Visite - Der V'03-Trailer (2003), Essex Street Market (2004), Noon Time Activities (2004), Workers Leaving the Factory (After Lumière) (2004), Greene Street (2004), The Collector (2004).

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