“Daybreak Express, Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953. Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, Daybreak Express was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington's song of the same name. A jazz aficionado, Pennebaker thought his career would continue along this path, making short films cut to songs. Skyscraper, Directed by Shirley Clarke and Willard Van Dyke • 1960. Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film by director Shirley Clarke playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Clarke referred to this work as a musical comedy. Clotheslines, Directed by Roberta Cantow • 1981. Through oral histories and images of clothes crisscrossing backyards, Roberta Cantow looks at laundry as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier, and a medium for women to reflect on the joys, pains, and ambivalences of household chores. The Bowery, Directed by Sara Driver • 1994. Produced for the French television series POSTCARDS FROM NEW YORK, this short documentary captures the poetry of the city’s storied skid row before its gentrification.”
Criterion: Daybreak Express, Skyscraper, Clotheslines, The Bowery (Video)
W - Skyscraper (1959), The Art of the Chore: Roberta Cantow’s Feminist Classic Clotheslines, The Bowery - Luc Sante
YouTube: Daybreak Express (1953), “SKYSCRAPER” CONSTRUCTION OF 666 5TH AVE. NEW YORK CITY DOCUMENTARY, Clotheslines Trailer
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