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Weegee's New York

Arthur FELLIG

USA1954 22min 16mm Color

Synopsis

There are many films about cities, with many made in the 1920s and 30s in particular. And there are a number of masterpieces as well:Dziga VERTOV's Man with a Movie Camera, Joris IVENS's Rain, and Walter RUTTMANN's Berlin, Symphony of a Big City come to mind. Weegee's New York follows this tradition, albeit in color. Weegee is a photographer. Using prism and abstract mirrors, the director dissects colors and transfigures images. In this way the director shows the images of the city in a highly expressionistic way. Weegee's New York presents us a New York that our eyes could never have seen.(PARK Dong-hyun)

Diretor

Arthur FELLIG

Born in Austria in 1899. His uncanny ability to be the first photographer on the scene of a major incident resulted in him being given the nickname, Weegee (a reference to the fortune-teller’s Ouija board). He loved combing the streets, clubs and bars of New York at night. In 1945, his first book of photographs, Naked City, was released and proved to be a huge success.