STREET LIFE: THE PERSONAL CINEMA OF MARK STREET

STRET LIFE: THE PERSONAL CINEMA OF MARK STREET

September 23rd, 2023

Doors at 7:30pm, screening at 8pm.

Recent observational works by filmmaker Mark Street. 

For many years Mark Street has been making small, observational films of the details and energies of public spaces in urban settings. City blocks, parking spaces and storefronts (and the people who bustle on by them) become abstractions as viewed in reflected rain or through the scratched glass of a bus stop enclosure. These city spaces identify a place but carry the mark of time, and are not divorceable from the moment of their making. The works presented in this program are all recent works, made since the pandemic and its associated impositions of social closure and eventual re-opening. During this period, many of us who were stranded, homebound in urban places found the types of daily walks recognizable in these films to be a rare avenue…