Picturing a metropolis

In the ‘roaring twenties’ in the US, movies were increasingly becoming a pastime for intellectuals: young artists, photographers, poets, novelists, dancers and architects, eager to explore cinematic expression, learned how to handle the camera; in short, it was the birth of experimental cinema. The following film presented striking new impressions of New York that became one of the landmarks of this early American experiment 
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En los “felices años veinte” en EE.UU., las películas se convirtieron cada vez más en el pasatiempo intelectual: los jóvenes artistas, fotógrafos, poetas, novelistas, bailarines, arquitectos, deseosos de explorar la expresión fílmica, aprendieron a manejar la cámara; en pocas palabras, era el nacimiento del cine experimental. La siguiente es una película que presentó de una forma sorprendente nuevas impresiones de Nueva York, convirtiéndose en uno de los puntos de referencia del experimento norteamericano temprano:

*Twenty-Four Dollar Island (watch here) / 13 minutes / Music: Donald Sosin /c. 1926
*Mannahatta (watch  here) 9.40 minutes / silent / 1921

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Catherine Restrepo

Meet Catherine, the former architect who traded blueprints for scuba suits and found a love for exploring ocean depths. Armed with a Nitrox specialty certification she tinkers mad-scientist style to concoct safer gas mixtures for sassier dives below. Currently honing her preservation skills by the river, this captain-in-training dreams of becoming a marine archaeologist out on the high seas. Drawn to water ever since she can remember, Catherine is perfectly proof that you can ditch a landlubber career to survey underwater artifacts and still keep your head above water. Whether cheerfully cursing floods in New Orleans or mapping lost treasures, this future underwater adventurist shows you can be anything your heart and diving compass point to next. The depths are calling and this seafaring conservator intends to dive right in!