No York City
About
Rick Liss's "NO YORK CITY" pulses viewers through the heart of an iconic metropolis at the speed of blood. Filmed in 1983 with an aesthetic that defies time, this riveting work moves us with both alienation and beauty. The film sees the city as an organism and its citizens as cells– sometimes frantic, sometimes in harmony. We race across a harbor, speed through traffic, gawk at art, balk at commerce, scuttle along sidewalks, weave through subways, bask in tickertape, dream beneath an angel at Bethesda Fountain and greet mimes in a boat on a great pond. As night falls, we join the electric carnival before soaring above the skyscrapers at dawn. The long day's journey is impeccably wrought by Liss with a striking sound design, music by Laurie Anderson and Jeffrey Meyer, influences of Bunuel and Scorsese, and a vision that's distinctly his own. It's an amazing movie. Watch it. – Rob Ackerman
Programs
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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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The Refracted City
Recent city-themed films by Mark Street, plus an archival program curated by Street and Matt McKinzie
On Tuesday, October 28th, 2025, at 7pm, longtime Coop filmmaker-member Mark Street visits our screening room to present a suite of his recent, abstract city symphony shorts, combined with a program of 16mm city-themed works from the Coop's collection, curated in collaboration with Matt McKinzie.
