Future Artists are screening this next Tuesday, worth a viewing I reckon...
BLANK
CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade
filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous
moment in New York history. From the late 1970’s through the mid 80’s,
when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these
directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence
the development of independent film as we know it today.
Directed
by French newcomer Céline Danhier, BLANK CITY weaves together an oral
history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements
through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all.
Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John
Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry,
hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, photographer
Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan
Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the
soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The
Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more.
Made
on shoestring budgets in collaboration with the pioneering musicians,
visual artists, performers, and derelicts that ruled Downtown, the films
surveyed in BLANK CITY are fitting documents of an exhilarating and
unique cultural moment. This same legendary-but-fleeting period likewise
birthed punk rock, hip-hop and Madonna, and brought New York City to
the forefront of the international art world. Unlike the revered musical
revolution of this era, this epoch of underground film has never before
been chronicled.
BLANK
CITY is a love letter to New York, a cultural portrait of Manhattan in
the days before Reagan, big money, and gentrification forever altered
the fabric of the city. Though a look back, the heart of BLANK CITY does
not live in the past. In this new age of digital democracy, the
maverick spirit of the New York Underground has risen again in emerging
creative communities worldwide. The Do-It-Yourself ethos, audacious
storytelling, and sense of urgency guiding “No Wave” and the “Cinema of
Transgression” are more relevant and inspiring than ever.
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Hopefully it'll be a worthy companion piece to the very best NYC documentary:
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Hopefully it'll be a worthy companion piece to the very best NYC documentary:
