Bridges-Go-Round 1

director: Shirley Clarke

original title: Bridges-Go-Round 1

year: 1958

running time: 4 min.

synopsis

The shots of New York bridges and skyscrapers create abstract patterns that remind us of a colourful caleidoscope. The author discovers a new face of New York, the face which reveals an unusual industrial beauty. A dynamic montage and layering of images is accompanied by vivacious experimental jazz music.

biography

Shirley Clarke (1919–1997) was an American director and university teacher, initially a dancer and a choreographer. In the 1950s she made short films and later she directed various documentaries and feature films. She was active in the feminist movement and her work is often included in the New American Cinema.

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director:

Shirley Clarke

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