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City Symphonies
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Thursday 16th | 12.00pm | Triskel Arts Centre
The city has inspired filmmakers from the beginnings
of cinema. This programme aims to features a diversity
of short films which use the city to explore ideas
of reflection, space, rhythm and transformation.
Ranging from D.A. Pennebaker's exhilarating early
morning train ride to Jazz of Lights, Ian Hugo's
abstracted Times Square - this eclectic programme
depicts the city from delirious dawn through to
poetic night.
Total running time 67mins
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Daybreak Express
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DA Pennebaker
USA | 1953 | 6mins | Colour
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Pennebaker's evocative and imaginative use of camera
depicts an early morning train ride into New York on
the elevated railway. Set to a suitably driving soundtrack
from Duke Ellington the film moves to abstraction as
it gathers pace to its kaleidoscopic climax.
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Manhattan
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Paul Strand, Charles Wheeler
USA | 1921 | 9mins | Black & White
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An impressionistic representation of Walt Whitman's
lyric hymn to the city was the beginning of Strand's
brilliant career.
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Architectural
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Sidney Peterson
USA | 1954 | 7mins | Black & White
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Best known for his Dadaist films of the 1940s, Peterson
made this film for the Museum of Modern Art. The tops
of New York skyscrapers are wittily compared to styles
of hats.
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N Or NW |
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Len Lye
England | 1937 | 8mins | Black & White
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Made for the GPO film unit, set to Fats Waller and
produced with Alberto Cavalcantti (a leading surrealist
filmmaker of the time), Len Lye's whimsical essay creatively
tells us to correctly address our post.
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San Francisco
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Anthony Stern
England | 1968 | 15mins | Colour
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A virtuoso display of flash and freeze frame film technique,
in which Stern using fast motion and clusters of single
frames to capture the pace of city life. Soundtrack
is Pink Floyds' Interstellar Overdrive.
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In The Night
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Walter Ruttman
Germany | 1931 | 7mins | Black & White
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A piano piece by Schumann accompanies abstract shots
of water and reflection.
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Jazz Of Lights
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Ian Hugo
USA | 1954 | 15mins | Colour
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The lights of Time Square at night. Abstracted from
their gaudy commercialism, the lights take on new forms
and create intricate patterns of form and colour. Hugo's
wife Anais Nin moves like a ghost through the haunted
landscape.
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In the lead-up to Cork assuming the status of
European Cultural Capital in 2005, we present
two events to stimulate discussion about the celebration
of cities and of city life.
City Symphonies and The Slow
Food Evening
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