Paul Strand-Manhatta(1921)-SINC(2007)

[TigerRocket]

Woody Allen's opening to his movie 'Manhattan' is an homage to this great film, the first comprehensive motion portrait of modern New York City. A day in the life...

[2tuque2]

soundtrack to the film on the KINO dvd release from 2005 is different and, I feel, preferable.

[theazism]

any way i can get an mp3 of the audio?

[Nit89ram]

Great job with the music and I like how well it fits with the images of old New York. Like a nice mix between old and new, I guess exactly like you intended it should be. Well done!

[themanfromrussia]

Great short SILENT film from that time, but delete the music. This wasn't meant to be Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

[WintersWar]

I muted the whole viewing. better off with no sound. the people of the 20's weren't bee bopping to techno sludge.

[sincproject]

ladies & gentlmen...kids and oldies....this was only a provocative rework...bye bye

[emre900100]

terrible music!!!!

[sotamarsu]

I like the idea. Complainers: there's button to turn the sound off if you just want to see the movie. Play your own.

[desasmujeres]

Fitz Lang and Michelangelo Antonioni did much better about the 20th century's urban imagery. Such a propaganda doc! Such naïf takes!

[MrSanta1988]

argh music!!

[serraventos]

People in motion. Stones, iron and cement forms, human intervention and transformation to transform the present to a modified environment.

[blueconversechucks]

god that was boring

[DontHateOnDonnie]

they showed this shit in my film class. these experimental films blow.  im with u

[85cube]

stfu

[DontHateOnDonnie]

what u fuckin make that shit? fuck u bitch

[Sonida87]

add...that music gives birth to a trippy fabulous view!!!

[HallandaleDeb]

Gorgeous footage. But best viewed with that repetitive electronic score tuned off! Why not some music of the time?

[sincproject]

simply we have reinterpretated what we have had in front of our eyes trying to give a modern view and a modern sense to this film to be over...

[HallandaleDeb]

Imagery as beautiful as this does not need assistance.

[sincproject]

every Era has her Beauty concept...every human being can have his opinion...

[zwoltysh]

@sincproject good point 

[beatrixbold]

ditto!

[ratioz]

Thoroughly fascinating pictoral montage of the Big Apple. I am impressed by the restoration as well and appreciate seeing motion in real time and not the typical scurrying fashion we often see from the era...how did they do it?

[sincproject]

we use nuendo, ableton and some hardware stuff! :)

[kenjiari]

wow!!!! very beautiful photography!!! thanks for sharing

[friedrichebert32]

Does anyone know a good book/webside where i could get more detailed information about strand?

[Mossein]

First American avant-garde film, created by two great figures of modern art: Strand/ Sheeler.See how they used Whitman's poems....all about city, its life, its dynamism. Instead of showing peoples very closely-what it was a characteristic of urban symphonies of 1920s- they represent them in an ant like scale from the tops of skyscrapers.This film is primarily very close to Straight photography.

[CommieAliens]

I agree. This is a brilliant combination. makes the movie seem almost like b&w surveillance footage.

[eddiemambo]

Love the Modern Music along with the Legendary Artists work.

NYC forever !

[Sonida87]

me too !!

[estherb8]

Very artistic video of the Big Apple...eb8

[TigerRocket]

Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 -- May 7, 1965) is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century.

Sheeler painted using a technique that complemented his photography. He was a self-proclaimed Precisionist, a term that emphasized the linear precision he employed in his depictions. As in his photographic works, his subjects were generally material things such as machinery and structures.

[TigerRocket]

Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 -- March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.

[TigerRocket]

A day in the life of New York City. This film has been described as the first avant garde film in America. It was inspired by portions of the poem 'Leaves of grass' by Walt Whitman.

[imaginariaff]

Live eseguito all'Imaginaria Film festival edizione 2007 - Conversano (BA)...grandi sinc...

[Acidmarx]

cool