Taxi, Taxi
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Snippets of New York City caught during Creston’s 15 years as a NYC cab driver, with scenes scripted and edited, and some actual dialogue recorded, with performances by Bill Creston, Barbara Rosenthal, Richard Miller, Lorraine Schanzer, and others. Original soundtrack and song “Taxi-Taxi” by Bill Creston. This film was screened during the Museum of Modern Art’s “Big As Life” Series 1997-99.
tags: driver, Bill, taxi, Creston, cab, NYC, New York, 1980s, New York City, 1990s, sunsets, marijuana, cityscapes, driving, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA
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Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers' Cooperative Collection and Beyond
A series of films about NYC in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center
Film at Lincoln Center and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative present "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond," to be presented at FLC from May 3rd–7th, 2024. The series will feature a selection of films from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative catalog, and elsewhere, that paint a unique portrait of the city, with many presented on 16mm.
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