N.Y., N.Y. (film)

This article is about the 1957 short film. For the 1977 film, see New York, New York (1977 film).
N.Y., N.Y.
Directed byFrancis Thompson
Music byGene Forrell
Distributed byAnagram International
Running time
15 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

N.Y., N.Y. (subtitled A Day in New York) is a 1957 film by director Francis Thompson.[1][2][3]

Summary

Eight years in the making, it is a collection of scenes from New York City recorded through special lenses, prisms and mirrors giving it a Cubist-Dadaist look.[4][5][6][7][8] Thompson shot the images with a Kodak Cine-Special.[2] The film's original negatives sat under the director's bed for nearly thirty years.[2]

Reception and legacy

N.Y., N.Y. is mentioned in Aldous Huxley's essay Heaven and Hell:

And then there is what may be called the Distorted Documentary a new form of visionary art, admirably exemplified by Mr. Francis Thompson's film, NY, NY. In this very strange and beautiful picture we see the city of New York as it appears when photographed through multiplying prisms, or reflected in the backs of spoons, polished hub caps, spherical and parabolic mirrors. We still recognize houses, people, shop fronts, taxicabs, but recognize them as elements in one of those living geometries which are so characteristic of the visionary experience. The invention of this new cinematographic art seems to presage (thank heaven!) the supersession and early demise of non-representational painting. It used to be said by the non-representationalists that colored photography had reduced the old-fashioned portrait and the old-fashioned landscape to the rank of otiose absurdities. This, of course, is completely untrue. Colored photography merely records and preserves, in an easily reproducible form, the raw materials with which portraitists and landscape painters work. Used as Mr. Thompson has used it, colored cinematography does much more than merely record and preserve the raw materials of non-representational art; it actually turns out the finished product. Looking at NY, NY, I was amazed to see that virtually every pictorial device invented by the old masters of non-representational art and reproduced ad nauseam by the academicians and mannerists of the school, for the last forty years or more, makes its appearance, alive, glowing, intensely significant, in the sequences of Mr. Thompson's film.[9]

It also received praise from The New York Times as 'one of the few genuine masterpieces' of the burgeoning experimental film movement in the United States.[2]

Two years later, it won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Internet Archive
  2. ^ a b c d Light Cone
  3. ^ Designers in Context: Film, Advertising, and Modernism - The Visualist
  4. ^ Francis Thompson, 95, Whose Films Inspired Imax - The New York Times
  5. ^ 10 Weirdest Avant-Garde Films Of The 50s, Ranked - ScreenRant
  6. ^ Turner Classic Movies
  7. ^ MUBI
  8. ^ Light Cone - Francis THOMPSON
  9. ^ NY, NY: A Day in New York by Francis Thompson|Cartoon Brew
  10. ^ FilmAffinity

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