Friday 13 August 2004, 19.00
Sunday 29 August 2004, 15.00
Friday 3 September 2004, 19.00

Programme duration 82'

Daybreak Express
DA Pennebaker, US 1953, 6’
Pennebaker’s evocative and imaginative use of camera technique depicts an early morning train ride into New York on the elevated railway. The film becomes increasingly abstract as it gathers pace towards its kaleidoscopic climax. Featuring a suitably driving Duke Ellington soundtrack.

On The Bowery
Lionel Rogosin, US 1955, 60’
This stark and sharply-etched film uses a reportage style to tell the story of Ray, an ex-track-layer who drifts to New York’s Bowery district in search of a few dollars. Shot on location in bars, doss-houses and gutters, the camera follows Ray and others on Skid Row for a few days and nights as they become part of the Bowery scene. We are left to make our own judgement about what brought these people to the ‘saddest, maddest streets in world’.

In the Street
Helen Levitt/Janice Loeb/James Agee, US 1948, 16’
Using a hidden camera on the streets of Spanish Harlem, the filmmakers gathered raw and memorable images of urban life for this deceptively simple documentary.

The New York Through Candid Eyes film series is programmed in relation to Edward Hopper.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Edward Hopper exhibition