Greene Street (2005)
Directed by Ernie Gehr
Run Time - 5 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
Experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr directed this look at a neighborhood in New York City's Lower East Side and how it has changed with the passage of time. Greene Street began as project Gehr was filming in the early Seventies, but circumstances prevented the film from being completed. In 2004, Gehr revisited the footage he shot thirty years before, and integrated it with new digital images to create a quartet of short films -- Greene Street, Essex Street Market, Noon Time Activities and Workers Leaving the Factory -- that examine New York City as is once was and as it is in the early years of the Twenty-First Century. Greene Street was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival.