Manhatta

Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler

Considered the first American avant-garde film, and perhaps first city symphony, an ode to Manhattan through Modernism, with inter-titles from Walt Whitman’s poetry. A canonical still photographer, Strand would later co-found Frontier Films.

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz.

Sessions

One Screening Only
19 Oct • 19:00 / 57’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Becoming Camera: Formal Experiments in and with ‘The Reality Film’

Manhatta

Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler

H2O

Ralph Steiner

A Bronx Morning

Jay Leyda

Oil: A Symphony in Motion

ARTKINO [M. G. MacPherson, Jean D. Michelson]

Footnote to Fact

Lewis Jacobs

Hands

Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke