NY NY
 

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Director: Gene Forrell
Year:  1957
Rating: 7.0

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AKA - A Day in New York

With my city under lockdown (though I am not there) I wanted to see what was advertised as a short documentary of New York City from morning to night time in 1957. To see NYC as it used to be. Well, that need was not at all satisfied as it turned out that this isn't so much a documentary as an art piece; a tone poem as if you walked through the streets totally high on LSD. It is quite wonderful and is set to the punchy experimental music of Gene Forrell. This is directed by Francis Thompson and he turns NYC into a Dali wet dream using distorted images, fractured lenses, melting images, geometric patterns, German Metropolis Expressionism - it is very cool and is only 15 minutes long. If it had been any longer I might have lost myself in a Moonage Daydream.