NATIVE NEW YORKER (US, 2005, Steve Bilich)

NATIVE NEW YORKER (US, 2005, Steve Bilich)

Filmed with a 1924 hand-crank Cine-Kodak camera, Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire). Shot before, during and after 9/11, 'Native New Yorker' took several years of filming, with a running length of 13 minutes. Original score composed by William Susman.

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MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (Belgium, 1978, Boris Lehman)

MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (Belgium, 1978, Boris Lehman)

¨A living chronicle of the residents of the Béguinage neighborhood – so named because it is situated on the site of the former Brussels béguinage. Designed as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film comprises around thirty chapters, each imbricated with the other, like so many pieces of a puzzle, or resembling a termite mound with many intersecting galleries. It takes place within the space and interstices of a day, starting at dawn and ending at night.¨


-Boris Lehman

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