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Title: "N.Y.C." (No York City)
Added: Aug 24, 2010
Author: RickLissStudio
Duration: 5:50
Description:
A five minute film by Rick Liss.A portrait of New York City circa early 1980s, which was an extremely fertile time creatively in New York City. This is a record of the city at that time.Music by Laurie Anderson.Review:Rick Liss's "NO YORK CITY" pulses viewers through the heart of an iconic metropolis at the speed of blood. Filmed in 1983 with an aesthetic that defies time, this riveting work moves us with both alienation and beauty.The film sees the city as an organism and its citizens as cells-- sometimes frantic, sometimes in harmony. We race across a harbor, speed through traffic, gawk at art, balk at commerce, scuttle along sidewalks, weave through subways, bask in tickertape, dream beneath an angel at Bethesda Fountain and greet mimes in a boat on a great pond. As night falls, we join the electric carnival before soaring above the skyscrapers at dawn.The long day's journey is impeccably wrought by Liss with a striking sound design, music by Laurie Anderson and Jeffrey Meyer, influences of Buñuel and Scorsese, and a vision that's distinctly his own. It's an amazing movie. Watch it.Rob Ackerman -- Playwright
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Tags: rick liss new york city nyc no york city no wave stop motion laurie anderson jeff meyer 1980 subway twin towers world trade center
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Youtube Comments: 58
KingWi11 Says:
Mar 23, 2011 - why does everything from the 80s look like it has a slight sepia filter on it?
TGfeed Says:
Mar 23, 2011 - we didn't shoot film with digital slr cameras in the 80s
chaallus Says:
Mar 23, 2011 - FASCINATING! THANK YOU!
strgyn Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - BRILLIANT!!
ben0765 Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - I love it. I was a Stuyvesant High School student at the time, commuting daily from Brooklyn to E. 15th Street. I sensed at that time and place great potential for new creative possibilities and accomplishments. This was just before NYC was overrun by the first wave of Wall $treet profiteers and the unimaginable number of AIDS deaths. It was far from perfect: the city suffered from pollution, muggings, blight, and inefficient public transportation. But it also sparkled with discovery and hope.
BobCat981 Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - turn volume to minimal lvl :) after a minute of this music your ears will start to bleed :D a joke ofc.. seriously, music is kinda annoying (it's basically the same throughout the movie), but video is great. definitely a LIKE :) GJ
MrFlipfly Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - NY died with the AIDS epidemic. Guiliani wanted to sweep NY clean to make it safe for tourists afraid of anything too flashy. NY has been taken over by banks and chain stores. It's sterile, stale and made for the rich. The old has been replaced with faceless glass buildings. Tourists come but what happened to the character of NY? It's gone. I'd take old NY any day cuz' today you're certain to be robbed by another kind of criminal- those wearing blue and gray suits.
Watcher3223 Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - I agree, and there was another thing I seemed to perceive from the short: that NYC is also big and fast ... fast to the point where what goes on can pass by quickly like a proverbial snap of the fingers.The way that city has changed between 1983 and today is kind of a testament to that and, IMO, helps this short to age rather well.Basically, I'm thinking the moral is to stop and take it in 'cause the beauty hidden within the noise and confusion may vanish and never come again.
Watcher3223 Says:
Mar 24, 2011 - Of course, I could also be VERY wrong with what Mr. Liss intended with his short film or, perhaps, the film is left open to interpretation with its value being whatever anyone can get out of it.
BI30 Says:
Mar 26, 2011 - I forgot just how dominant the WTC Towers were to the NYC skyliine. They stood out like no other building in the city.
Schnakworld Says:
Mar 27, 2011 - The mime population seems to have thinned out in the intervening decades, praise God.
sonoffate Says:
Mar 27, 2011 - Reminded me of a piece I made in 2008.vimeo.(dot)com/21526666NYC definitely changed...
andysapp Says:
Mar 27, 2011 - That was awesome!
martinscott26 Says:
Apr 5, 2011 - 2:26 "kill him, kill him, ass to mouth"
odilonvert Says:
Apr 8, 2011 - I remember this era! Wonderful.
analbeadsish Says:
Apr 13, 2011 - for the worst, and you're probably one of the hipster/yuppie faggots that made it happen
MyAccount4TrollingU Says:
May 23, 2011 - lol. Fucking ridiculous.
tombqnyc Says:
Jun 15, 2011 - can't you wait for gays with guns to your ignorant head you freak moron?you will die off like scum mold and you are probably a mental closet case of some sortso gross that your mother spewed you out SONOFFATE aka SONOFAGGOT
67tr876 Says:
Jun 26, 2011 - You had way better cams then that dude come on.
67tr876 Says:
Jun 26, 2011 - Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.
allstar2bein2023 Says:
Oct 11, 2011 - Amazing.
level242 Says:
Oct 13, 2011 - This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.
drewgsands Says:
Oct 22, 2011 - The Video is from the 1983 how far do you want to go back. You know nothing about NYC. 1st thing NYC has 26,000 places to eat that are not chain resturants. Museums, Broadway off broadway. Bloomingdales Diamond District, Tiffanys. My place in 1977 was 55k now 3.2 million Thank You Guiliani. In 1977 it was close to harlem and not great. Everything was bad. Everything rocks now and all is better. Crime is way way down Thanks, Bernard Goetz. life is good
StephiaMadelyne Says:
Feb 13, 2012 - Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City
jayuhfree Says:
Mar 23, 2011 - Makes today's NYC look like Disneyland!