NY died with the AIDS epidemic. Guiliani wanted to sweep NY clean to make it safe for tourists afraid of anything too flashy. NY has been taken over by banks and chain stores. It's sterile, stale and made for the rich. The old has been replaced with faceless glass buildings. Tourists come but what happened to the character of NY? It's gone. I'd take old NY any day cuz' today you're certain to be robbed by another kind of criminal- those wearing blue and gray suits.
@MrFlipfly The Video is from the 1983 how far do you want to go back. You know nothing about NYC. 1st thing NYC has 26,000 places to eat that are not chain resturants. Museums, Broadway off broadway. Bloomingdales Diamond District, Tiffanys. My place in 1977 was 55k now 3.2 million Thank You Guiliani. In 1977 it was close to harlem and not great. Everything was bad. Everything rocks now and all is better. Crime is way way down Thanks, Bernard Goetz. life is good
turn volume to minimal lvl :) after a minute of this music your ears will start to bleed :D a joke ofc.. seriously, music is kinda annoying (it's basically the same throughout the movie), but video is great. definitely a LIKE :) GJ
I love it. I was a Stuyvesant High School student at the time, commuting daily from Brooklyn to E. 15th Street. I sensed at that time and place great potential for new creative possibilities and accomplishments. This was just before NYC was overrun by the first wave of Wall $treet profiteers and the unimaginable number of AIDS deaths. It was far from perfect: the city suffered from pollution, muggings, blight, and inefficient public transportation. But it also sparkled with discovery and hope.
@cowofwar You don't get it...the cacophony, the confusion is exactly what the video is trying to do. NYC in the 80's (and still to this day) was a loud, confusing place...but that's what makes it such an amazing city
I agree, and there was another thing I seemed to perceive from the short: that NYC is also big and fast ... fast to the point where what goes on can pass by quickly like a proverbial snap of the fingers.
The way that city has changed between 1983 and today is kind of a testament to that and, IMO, helps this short to age rather well.
Basically, I'm thinking the moral is to stop and take it in 'cause the beauty hidden within the noise and confusion may vanish and never come again.
Of course, I could also be VERY wrong with what Mr. Liss intended with his short film or, perhaps, the film is left open to interpretation with its value being whatever anyone can get out of it.
i miss seedier nyc. ny felt so much more alive and interesting then. it was still too scary for all the idiots who took over after the city was turned into a big, tacky homogenous disney factory.
Mindblowingly good! I remember and cherish this NYC, although I am not so sure I want it back . . . alhtough I am not too crazy about Giuliani's Disneyfied version that still persist,
Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City
StephiaMadelyne 1 week ago
This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.
level242 4 months ago
Amazing.
allstar2bein2023 4 months ago
I remember this era! Wonderful.
odilonvert 10 months ago
2:26 "kill him, kill him, ass to mouth"
martinscott26 10 months ago
That was awesome!
andysapp 11 months ago
Reminded me of a piece I made in 2008.
vimeo.(dot)com/21526666
NYC definitely changed...
sonoffate 11 months ago
@sonoffate for the worst, and you're probably one of the hipster/yuppie faggots that made it happen
analbeadsish 10 months ago
can't you wait for gays with guns to your ignorant head you freak moron?
you will die off like scum mold and you are probably a mental closet case of some sort
so gross that your mother spewed you out SONOFFATE aka SONOFAGGOT
tombqnyc 8 months ago
The mime population seems to have thinned out in the intervening decades, praise God.
Schnakworld 11 months ago
I forgot just how dominant the WTC Towers were to the NYC skyliine. They stood out like no other building in the city.
BI30 11 months ago
Do New Yorkers Dream of Electric Sheep?
chael37 11 months ago
NY died with the AIDS epidemic. Guiliani wanted to sweep NY clean to make it safe for tourists afraid of anything too flashy. NY has been taken over by banks and chain stores. It's sterile, stale and made for the rich. The old has been replaced with faceless glass buildings. Tourists come but what happened to the character of NY? It's gone. I'd take old NY any day cuz' today you're certain to be robbed by another kind of criminal- those wearing blue and gray suits.
MrFlipfly 11 months ago 11
@MrFlipfly
lol. Fucking ridiculous.
MyAccount4TrollingU 9 months ago
@MrFlipfly The Video is from the 1983 how far do you want to go back. You know nothing about NYC. 1st thing NYC has 26,000 places to eat that are not chain resturants. Museums, Broadway off broadway. Bloomingdales Diamond District, Tiffanys. My place in 1977 was 55k now 3.2 million Thank You Guiliani. In 1977 it was close to harlem and not great. Everything was bad. Everything rocks now and all is better. Crime is way way down Thanks, Bernard Goetz. life is good
drewgsands 4 months ago
turn volume to minimal lvl :) after a minute of this music your ears will start to bleed :D a joke ofc.. seriously, music is kinda annoying (it's basically the same throughout the movie), but video is great. definitely a LIKE :) GJ
BobCat981 11 months ago
I love it. I was a Stuyvesant High School student at the time, commuting daily from Brooklyn to E. 15th Street. I sensed at that time and place great potential for new creative possibilities and accomplishments. This was just before NYC was overrun by the first wave of Wall $treet profiteers and the unimaginable number of AIDS deaths. It was far from perfect: the city suffered from pollution, muggings, blight, and inefficient public transportation. But it also sparkled with discovery and hope.
ben0765 11 months ago
BRILLIANT!!
strgyn 11 months ago
FASCINATING! THANK YOU!
chaallus 11 months ago
why does everything from the 80s look like it has a slight sepia filter on it?
KingWi11 11 months ago 2
@KingWi11 we didn't shoot film with digital slr cameras in the 80s
TGfeed 11 months ago
@TGfeed You had way better cams then that dude come on.
67tr876 8 months ago
@KingWi11 Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.
67tr876 8 months ago
Makes today's NYC look like Disneyland!
jayuhfree 11 months ago
Wow, great memories. The year we had to flee…
0:56 is a Richard Hamilton figure, 1:10-1:14, Keith Harings in galleries, 1:15 is Dekooning, 1:17 is a Basquiat/Samo in a gallery.
jayuhfree 11 months ago 2
Incredible...I miss the old NY....
mhnyc 11 months ago
....................spectacular.................
zae1904 11 months ago
what were the artworks in the gallery?
thesexualsoup 11 months ago
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zae1904 11 months ago
truly amazing.
PatThePhat1 11 months ago
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This is garbage and probably was garbage at the time. Cacophony of noise and disjointed, confused video.
cowofwar 11 months ago
@cowofwar one man's trash is another man's treasure
TGfeed 11 months ago
@cowofwar You don't get it...the cacophony, the confusion is exactly what the video is trying to do. NYC in the 80's (and still to this day) was a loud, confusing place...but that's what makes it such an amazing city
SeanMayVids 11 months ago 5
@SeanMayVids
I agree, and there was another thing I seemed to perceive from the short: that NYC is also big and fast ... fast to the point where what goes on can pass by quickly like a proverbial snap of the fingers.
The way that city has changed between 1983 and today is kind of a testament to that and, IMO, helps this short to age rather well.
Basically, I'm thinking the moral is to stop and take it in 'cause the beauty hidden within the noise and confusion may vanish and never come again.
Watcher3223 11 months ago
@SeanMayVids
Of course, I could also be VERY wrong with what Mr. Liss intended with his short film or, perhaps, the film is left open to interpretation with its value being whatever anyone can get out of it.
Watcher3223 11 months ago
Pants were so much tighter then.
kuhnigget 11 months ago
almost unwatchable, sorry.
tkennon9999 11 months ago
Thanks for the this time capsule
proceedapathy 11 months ago
i miss seedier nyc. ny felt so much more alive and interesting then. it was still too scary for all the idiots who took over after the city was turned into a big, tacky homogenous disney factory.
jillmaxi 11 months ago 2
This video is really awesome and... what's wrong with this music then?
puwazatza 11 months ago
I was there... thanks for taking me back in time for a visit. :)
capecodjewel 11 months ago
I was in NYC in the early 80's. To be honest, I miss New York being a little seedier than it is now!
sex6cult9revolution 11 months ago
pimpmobile @1:59
24thStDJ 11 months ago
fuck! that was brilliant.
MrAria44 11 months ago
very cool
2hdwa 11 months ago
nice use of time-lapse. montage reminiscent of Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera
mkultrasound 11 months ago
This makes me nostalgic for my experimental film classes.
chris3000nyc 11 months ago
NIce
ZJProz 11 months ago
wow! amazing!
satansatansatan 11 months ago
Mindblowingly good! I remember and cherish this NYC, although I am not so sure I want it back . . . alhtough I am not too crazy about Giuliani's Disneyfied version that still persist,
sgomez64 11 months ago
WOW! thank you for this video! much love! (i'm 28 years old, from brooklyn... same age as this film!)
mintychicles 11 months ago
New York City in the 1970's was much better - especially 42nd street times square.
LODGE4444 11 months ago 3
I love it!! Makes me think about all the movies I grew up watching!! So glad I live here now!!
Sarkasm101 11 months ago
Whoa, very nice! Brings back some memories.
FiorentinaNJ 11 months ago
Love this old N.Y.C stuff..
wuggacrt 11 months ago
amazing .. love it !!
mdjslip7 11 months ago
Beautiful and unrelenting imagery. A love note to a time now past. The soundtrack and images compete and compliment in a full speed marathon.
HPZONE109X 1 year ago
Brilliant, evocative, haunting. I loved it. Bravo!
robertack 1 year ago