Long for the City
2008 | 00:09:10 | United States | English | B&W | Stereo | 4:3 | Film
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Artist Spaces, City, Music
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Long for the City is a short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote, and then a later one, "Prayer", from the early 1970s. We take a walk in her changing neighborhood, and I ask her what she saw. Footage was shot in the moment, as well as drawn from the archive I've gathered over many years. Long for the City can be considered a non-musical companion piece to the music short, Spirit, which we collaborated on in 2007. It had its premier as an installation in Patti Smith's show, Land 250, and Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Exhibitions + Festivals
Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, 2010
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, 2010
Seoul International Film Festival, 2010
Curtas Film Festival, Villa do Conde, Portugal, 2009
Recontres Internationale, Paris, 2009
Rio de Janiero, Curta Cinema, 2009
Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2009
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