http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZ5Pt2GclQBattery Park City is one of Manhattan’s most picturesque locations. It’s also one of the most synthetic. The carefully crafted promenade, parks, and plazas comprise an area of New York that’s undeniably gorgeous. Yet, somehow, the well-groomed gardens and lawns remind me that centuries ago Manhattan was untouched- its flora and fauna chaotic and beautiful in their original habitat. Today BPC represents the antithesis of that ideal. It is man-made nature, and still there is no denying that it’s beautiful in its artificiality.
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Audile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnZDnxTJdA
Audile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClFb0ElsmNo by – Peter Reinstein
Call It What You’d Like, I Know How I Feel
An experimental film about the ‘Open City’ of New York:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILlpjC7eDKY-Justin Bonilla, Student, Media Mavericks
Under The Dryer
Under The Dryer (a project prepared for my Media Mavericks class) is an exploration into media perceptions of beauty and African-American hair. A variety of young, black females talk about their experiences revolving around their hair in juxtaposition to images that depict common and accepted ideas of beauty; This sharp contrast simultaneously shows parallels between the “ideal type” of Westernized beauty to African-American culture, even within an exclusionary social system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVGjgnLLZkE
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holus bolus by jacob halpren
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using only found footage, exploring human motion and/or transportation in NYCweaving in and out, colliding together…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VavY0VxpmC0
inquiline
new york aquarium.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRHR84M_W80
DIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzlfG04FQk A semi-secret rock venue in Ridgewood, Queens employs the sound of an adjoining Mexican restaurant as a cover and as an indicator.
intestinzlanch09 (v1) — inquiline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GrkOu6hiQ intended to be projected on three walls of room plus floor and ceiling. rough edit, need to rework in after effects- i want the endoscopy to be much more abstract.two videos are found footage of an endoscopy (sorry, its graphic), and a man getting caught in an avalanche with a camera on his helmet (he survived).relates to word inquiline in that we are all just simple components of this giant, massive organism that is new york city. insignificance and claustrophobia.