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Dir. Jamie Nares, 2011, USA, 61 min.
My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity…a film to be viewed 100 years from now.
—Jamie Nares
Jamie Nares’s Street, an engrossing and celebratory hour-long, oversized video projection of life in New York City, is a monument to evanescence. The work was fashioned from sixteen hours of material, recorded in six-second bursts from a vehicle moving through city streets at a rate of thirty miles per hour. Nares used a high-speed Phantom camera capable of filming up to one thousand frames per second; this footage was then slowed down by a factor of twenty so that each six-second pan was distended to two minutes, transforming the artist’s urban safari into a smooth, continuous glacial crawl.
—J. Hoberman
With a haunting score by Thurston Moore, Street is a masterpiece of sidewalk cinema. It’s one of those films that demands a darkened theater and an audience of fellow pedestrians. Deeply embedded in the No Wave movement with films like Rome, ‘78 (1978), Nares also happens to be credited as the cinematographer on two episodes of Fishing With John (1991).
Street will be preceded by Nares’s short film, Game (1975, 3m)
***10/13 with artist Jamie Nares in person****
All sales are final and tickets are nonrefundable. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
Dir. Jamie Nares, 2011, USA, 61 min.
My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity…a film to be viewed 100 years from now.
—Jamie Nares
Jamie Nares’s Street, an engrossing and celebratory hour-long, oversized video projection of life in New York City, is a monument to evanescence. The work was fashioned from sixteen hours of material, recorded in six-second bursts from a vehicle moving through city streets at a rate of thirty miles per hour. Nares used a high-speed Phantom camera capable of filming up to one thousand frames per second; this footage was then slowed down by a factor of twenty so that each six-second pan was distended to two minutes, transforming the artist’s urban safari into a smooth, continuous glacial crawl.
—J. Hoberman
With a haunting score by Thurston Moore, Street is a masterpiece of sidewalk cinema. It’s one of those films that demands a darkened theater and an audience of fellow pedestrians. Deeply embedded in the No Wave movement with films like Rome, ‘78 (1978), Nares also happens to be credited as the cinematographer on two episodes of Fishing With John (1991).
Street will be preceded by Nares’s short film, Game (1975, 3m)
***10/13 with artist Jamie Nares in person****
All sales are final and tickets are nonrefundable. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.