New York Memories
Film Information:
Year:
2010
New York Memories
País:
Director:
Color:
Color
Format:
Digibeta
Duration:
89 min
Cast:
- Claudia Steinberg, Anna Steegmann, Lucie Pohl, Marie Pohl
Production:
- GUIÓN: Rosa von Praunheim
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Lorenz Haarmann
- MONTAJE: Mike Shephard
- PRODUCCIÓN: Rosa von Praunheim, Jutta Krug, Alexander Wesemann, Thomas Sessner
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Synopsis
Rosa von Praunheim goes back to the Big Apple in search of three women from her documentary Survival in New York, twenty years later. What she finds is something as unusual, or even more, than that (especially because transformations followed their course as the years went by). And that’s the subject for this documentary: the processes of change in a city and its inhabitants, the mutation cycles, the differences that smear through time across a territory. Apart from the changing lives of the main protagonists, there’s a freakish tour around New York, from post-911 to the Obama age, that includes a guru who founded an anti-consumption religion, a transsexual teen video artist, a theater professor who survived the hippie cult with a politically correct sentimentality, and other eccentric delights, all caught with a precise eye. Also, there’s the parallel history of the last thirty years in gay, lesbian, and transsexual culture in the city von Prauheim considers to be “the gayest city in the whole world”.