Director: Francis Thompson
Year: 1957
Time: 15 mins
Music: Gene Forrell
Eye of Sound: Thompson's training as a painter is evident throughout this gorgeous collage of New York distorted cityscapes. But his talents as a filmmaker are no less impressive. The film follows a chronological order, starting with early morning power generators and ending with night-time clubs and neon lights. Its kaleidoscopical pictures have the magic effect of bending not only image and space but also time itself, thus condensing 24 hours in 15 minutes. The hallucinatory, twisted NYscapes blend with Correll's music, which oscillates between light jazziness and darker contemporary tones. This is a fabulous vision of a lost city, a city that illuminated the American dream before its collapse.
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There's a nice mention of this film in "Heaven and Hell" of Aldous Huxley. He describes it as an admirable exemple of "a strange new form of visionary art"... It might not be new anymore, but it still a beautiful and inspiring film!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sabrina. I was very happy to know that.
ReplyDeleteCheers.