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Independent feature film. Jimmy (Stanek) is eager to escape his apparent future as a low-level mobster in his Brooklyn neighbourhood. He aspires to be an actor and auditions for a role in a Shakespearean...
Diaries, notes and sketches filmed 1949-1963, edited 1976. Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas invented the diary form of filmmaking. Born in Lithuania in 1922, and displaced from his...
Despite stiff competition from elsewhere, New York has remained one of the world’s premier cities. Focusing on the economic connections that are concentrated on New York, the programme first shows how the...
Harlem was one of the flashpoints of the 1960s, a place where counter-culture, protest and opposition to entrenched political interest and repressive social structures exploded in riots and civil unrest. In...
Explores the local and global forces that have directed and shaped the urban development of New York and Los Angeles over the last 30 years. Examines Battery Park City and the 42nd Street project in New...
Portrays a number of prisoners and ex-prisoners of the New York state prison system. Some of them have organised to reform the prison system, including Eddie Ellis, a former ‘Black Panther’ imprisoned...
At the height of the Great Depression in the USA, President Franklin D Roosevelt promised the people a New Deal. The Works Project Administration (WPA) employed artists within the Federal Art Project, part...
In a programme made shortly before his death, Robert Motherwell, one of the chief protagonists of the New York school, this film recalls the ‘heroic age’ of American abstract expressionism, tracing the...
A record of the building of a 47-storey, 7OO-foot tall skyscraper, Worldwide Plaza, in New York City, showing the evolution of the project from the initial design through all it construction stages to its...
A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews...
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