Taxi, Taxi

Taxi, Taxi

color, sound
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, ...

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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

 

Programs

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    Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers' Cooperative Collection and Beyond

    A 10-program 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.

Films

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    Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day
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    Video Journal II, From Grandma’s House to Bar Mitzvah
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    Bill Creston

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    SEG (Special Effects Generator)
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    Bill Creston

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    CRACKS
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    Cripple

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    black and white, sound, 7 min
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    Newsdealer (I'm a Man)
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    Video Journal II From Grandma's House To Bar Mitzvah
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    Botanica Prayer, 24th & 7thw
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    SIX SHORT FILMS (Peanut Butter, Water, Stars, Execution)
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    Leonard Moltz, Sewing Machine
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    Ola, A Film By Her Father
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    Runner

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    I Saw Where You Was Last Night

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    You Ever Hear of Wyatt Earp?
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    I Saw Where You Was Last Night
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    Peanut Butter

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    You Ever Hear of Wyatt Earp?
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    Coupons
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    PEANUT BUTTER, ETC. (Peanut Butter, Water, Stars, Execution)
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     GARBAGE, ETC. (Garbage, Comedy, The Bank Loan, The Dropped Coin, Your Brother Seymour)
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    5:30 A.M. TAXI REAR VIEW MIRROR C
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    Lunch Hour
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    He Stole My Gun
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