"N.Y.C." (No York City)

A five minute film by Rick Liss.
A portrait of New York City circa early 1980s, which was an extremely fertile time creatively in New York City. This is a record of the city at that time.
Music by Laurie Anderson.

Review:
Rick Liss's "NO YORK CITY" pulses viewers through the heart of an iconic metropolis at the speed of blood. Filmed in 1983 with an aesthetic that defies time, this riveting work moves us with both alienation and beauty.

The film sees the city as an organism and its citizens as cells-- sometimes frantic, sometimes in harmony. We race across a harbor, speed through traffic, gawk at art, balk at commerce, scuttle along sidewalks, weave through subways, bask in tickertape, dream beneath an angel at Bethesda Fountain and greet mimes in a boat on a great pond. As night falls, we join the electric carnival before soaring above the skyscrapers at dawn.

The long day's journey is impeccably wrought by Liss with a striking sound design, music by Laurie Anderson and Jeffrey Meyer, influences of Buñuel and Scorsese, and a vision that's distinctly his own. It's an amazing movie. Watch it.

Rob Ackerman -- Playwright

• Category

  Film & Animation

[MrFlipfly]

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.

[Sean May]

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

[Michael Marisi Ornstein]

New York Fuckin City / Yeah / Thanks for this breath of fresh air - m

[Danil Kolesnikov]

make this world better

[Danil Kolesnikov]

ahaha, what the hell are u talking about? ))

those "criminals" make this world

[StephiaMadelyne Kascher]

Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City

[level242]

This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.

[allstar2bein2023]

Amazing.

[67tr876]

Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.

[67tr876]

You had way better cams then that dude come on.

[tombqnyc]

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

[Mike Hunt]

lol. Fucking ridiculous.