Bridges and Tunnels: Art and Efficiency
Monday August 3rd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
A special event within our RIGHT TO THE CITY series featuring films which document varying stages in the evolution of our Port Authority and MTA systems. They range in form from educational documentaries, newsreels, sponsored films, and amateur but ambitious cine-poems.
Few institutions within the city inspire as much rage as the MTA, and we hope to tap into the furor with a special panel of speakers to help lead a discussion on the MTA today.
RIGHT TO THE CITY:
--Manhattan Waterfront - Harold McCracken, 1937, 11 minutes
--Arteries of New York City - Robert S. Lynd, 1941, 9 minutes
--Daybreak Express - DA Pennebaker, 1953, 5 minutes
--Third Ave El - Carson Davidson, 1957, 11 minutes
--The End of the "El" - Pathe News Magazine of the Screen, 1957, 3 minutes
--Stations of the Elevated - Manfred Kirchheimer, 1980, 49 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes | Digital Projection
Discussion with:
--Peter Derrick of the Bronx Historical Society, and author of Tunneling to the Future (NYU Press, 2001)
--Marty Goodman, MTA Station Agent, and Executive Board Member of Transit Workers Union Local 100
--Manny Kirchheimer, filmmaker and professor, director of Stations (1980), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004) and Spraymasters (2008).
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus
--Jon Zazove of Dear MTA
TWU Local 100
Dear MTA
Urban Omnibus
Brecht Forum
(Pennebaker's film is available on DVD from Pennebaker Hegedus Films).