A City Symphony
The Helsinki of the 1990s, longed for by many, comes to life in Heikki Ahola's City Symphony. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this classic montage film offers a unique glimpse into the pulsating life of the capital at
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The Helsinki of the 1990s, longed for by many, comes to life in Heikki Ahola's City Symphony. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this classic montage film offers a unique glimpse into the pulsating life of the capital at
Sarajevo: City Symphony is an audio visual performance and experimental documentary inspired by the City of Sarajevo and its people who lived and who live in this amazing historical place.
A lone conductor finds music in the mundane.
The film takes us on a brief journey across the skies of Damascus, passing over the communities that have arrived in the Levant with all their cultural and civilizational characteristics, to immerse ourselves in their da
An impressionistic short film celebrating Stockholm’s rhythms of life, blending images of its streets, waterways, people, and architecture into a visual “symphony.” Winner of the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Short Subj
Be swept up on a magical journey on the New York City Subway, never knowing what you will see next. This musical 'tone poem' uses archival and present day scenes to create a movable feast of sights and sounds unique to t
Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920’s and 1930’s, this short film documents Reykjavik city during the summer. Free from the constraints of narrative filmmaking conventions, the film carefully observes the beauty
Two friends travel around the city of Reno, Nevada, and go skating at a nearby parking garage.
The English seaside town of Brighton in all its festive, bohemian, campaigning glory has inspired a remarkable fusion of silent film and music by filmmaker Lizzie Thynne and composer Ed Hughes. Drawing on such precedents
Poetic and political portrait of the city Córdoba in Argentina.
Footage of municipal workers.
A celebration of summertime in NYC.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst conseq
he film is devoted to Shanghai, the cultural and industrial capital of East Asia. Shanghai's prosperity began in the first few decades of the twentieth century when the biggest world powers identified their interests in
Filmed over the course of a year on rare stormy nights in the LA basin, CITY SYMPHONY NO. 1 - LOS ANGELES combines stunning 6K slow motion imagery with a dense soundscape of rain, police scanners and secretly recorded An
Created by 24 fabulous filmmakers and two talented sound artists in conjunction with the 2018 edition of Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival in Pamplona, Spain.
Facilitated by Echo Park Film Center, Hanoi Doclab and the Goethe Institute, The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony invited a group of young Vietnamese filmmakers to explore their city on film, shooting with Super 8 cam
Discovering and redefining techniques of past avant-garde urban documentarians, 37 teens with little or no prior filmmaking experience worked with 16mm cameras and black and white stock to create a stunning 24-hour cinem
The city of Rome described only through images, from alternative points of view. We will not find postcard landscapes, but a tribute to Berlin: Symphony of a City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927), in which light is the protagonis
Directed and filmed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound, this short industrial documentary captures the realities of 1930s mining in Broken Hill. This film opens with dramatised historical re-enactments of Captain Charles Stur