street scene

urban imagery seen through the eyes of ernie gehr
and chantal akerman
in aki kaurismäki's shadows in paradise - 1986

news from home

exterior shots/urban landscapes from
chantal akerman's news from home - 1976

(in connection with)

- the early morning urban photographs of eugène atget (no people)
- movement and abstraction (later images [10-17] abstracted by car and train travel)
- storefront architecture : see the book store front: the disappearing face of new york
- joe zawinul's arrival in new york from the album zawinul - 1971 (the reverse of the closing shot of this film)
- scott macdonald's writings on the urban landscape in the garden in the machine: a field guide to independent films about place
- early martin scorsese films (mean streets, taxi driver, american boy: a profile of: steven prince, san francisco photography in the last waltz)
- the cinematography of babette mangolte
- other street posts * and films listed there (ernie gehr etc.)
- interiors in akerman's films *
- suggestions?, more urban posts to come (because i can no longer stand being in the city?)

le saut dans le vide

exterior shots from
chantal akerman's jeanne dielman,
23 quai du commerce, 1080 bruxelles - 1975

ernie gehr - still - 1971

ernie gehr - signal - germany on the air - 1985

yves klein - le saut dans le vide - 1960