City Walk

Bill Morrison / United States / 1999 / 6 min.

synopsis

A city in motion, the pedestrians and cars streaming through the streets casting shadows in time. Staccato monochrome images are underscored by music by Michael Gordon. The film is part of a multimedia project known as The Carbon Copy Building that thematizes impressions from two seemingly identical buildings in New York.

“The urban travel imagery is manipulated to give the impression of a stark, charcoal-like chiaroscuro black and white. The texture of the image at times becomes so porous it recalls Georges Seurat’s pointillism.“ Donato Totaro