"N.Y.C." (No York City)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2010
- 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 - Фільми й анімація
For those that are curious, as I was:
The song used in this is 'For Electric Dogs' by Laurie Anderson, featured on the album "You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With" (1981).
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.
I was in NYC in the early 80's. To be honest, I miss New York being a little seedier than it is now!
Incredible...I miss the old NY....
Whoa, very nice! Brings back some memories.
Love this old N.Y.C stuff..
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.
I love this.
Tremendous! The short does an amazing job of capturing a moment and place in time, it really feels like we've experienced an entire day's journey by the end.
This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.
FASCINATING! THANK YOU!
Came here from Tales from the Crypt's John Kassir. Didn't much enjoy the soundtrack, but love the old NYC imagery.
....................spectacular.................
To Rick Liss. Thanks for sharing this cool timepiece film. You may want to take the parenthesis off the "No York City" because your video does not come up when I enter it in the search. It would also boost your views.
truly amazing.
That was awesome!
I dare say that Rob Ackerman is the only man who still says and probably has ever said "at the speed of blood". Makes "I dare say" sound like a modern introduction.
impressive work! great video this is a mental trip!
Amazing.
fantastic! thank you for posting! i live in bushwick (brooklyn), ny
I forgot just how dominant the WTC Towers were to the NYC skyliine. They stood out like no other building in the city.
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,
Makes today's NYC look like Disneyland!
make this world better
NIce
@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
fuck! that was brilliant.
what were the artworks in the gallery?
@KingWi11 we didn't shoot film with digital slr cameras in the 80s
While Ms Anderson is time appropriate. Check out Lotus Plaza -Strangers set to this film. Conveys even a better sense of floating. 1970s/1980s surreal NYC.
@KingWi11 Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.
@cowofwar one man's trash is another man's treasure
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
Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City
2:26 "kill him, kill him, ass to mouth"
@TGfeed You had way better cams then that dude come on.
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.
What do you mean by seedier? You want to live in a more corrupt city?
seedier like a plant, a big jungle
New York City in the 1970's was much better - especially 42nd street times square.
ahaha, what the hell are u talking about? ))
those "criminals" make this world
almost unwatchable, sorry.
Amazing.