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City Slivers - Gordon Matta-Clark (USA, 1976, 16mm, 14:00, mute)
A formal investigation of New York’s urban
architecture, it was planned to be projected on the exterior facade of a
building. Employing mattes to segment the film frame into narrow vertical bands
that readily accommodate the proportions of Manhattan’s high-rise skyline, Matta-Clark
creates a dynamic city symphony. The visual slivers capture both the
monumentality of the built environment and the hectic fragmented pace of urban
life as traffic and pedestrians traverse intersections, workers enter and exit
a revolving door, and diaristic texts appear running along the edges of the
frame. “Time is fluid, again, as slivers of scenes overlap in rhapsodic
simultaneity.”
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