Feb 13, 2012 StephiaMadelyne Says:
Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City
Oct 23, 2011 drewgsands Says:
The Video is from the 1983 how far do you want to go back. You know nothing about NYC. 1st thing NYC has 26,000 places to eat that are not chain resturants. Museums, Broadway off broadway. Bloomingdales Diamond District, Tiffanys. My place in 1977 was 55k now 3.2 million Thank You Guiliani. In 1977 it was close to harlem and not great. Everything was bad. Everything rocks now and all is better. Crime is way way down Thanks, Bernard Goetz. life is good
Oct 13, 2011 level242 Says:
This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.
Jun 26, 2011 67tr876 Says:
Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.
Jun 26, 2011 67tr876 Says:
You had way better cams then that dude come on.
Jun 15, 2011 tombqnyc Says:
can't you wait for gays with guns to your ignorant head you freak moron?
you will die off like scum mold and you are probably a mental closet case of some sort
so gross that your mother spewed you out SONOFFATE aka SONOFAGGOT
Mar 27, 2011 sonoffate Says:
Reminded me of a piece I made in 2008.
vimeo.(dot)com/21526666
NYC definitely changed...
Mar 27, 2011 Schnakworld Says:
The mime population seems to have thinned out in the intervening decades, praise God.
Mar 26, 2011 BI30 Says:
I forgot just how dominant the WTC Towers were to the NYC skyliine. They stood out like no other building in the city.
Mar 24, 2011 Watcher3223 Says:
Of course, I could also be VERY wrong with what Mr. Liss intended with his short film or, perhaps, the film is left open to interpretation with its value being whatever anyone can get out of it.
Mar 24, 2011 Watcher3223 Says:
I agree, and there was another thing I seemed to perceive from the short: that NYC is also big and fast ... fast to the point where what goes on can pass by quickly like a proverbial snap of the fingers.
The way that city has changed between 1983 and today is kind of a testament to that and, IMO, helps this short to age rather well.
Basically, I'm thinking the moral is to stop and take it in 'cause the beauty hidden within the noise and confusion may vanish and never come again.
Mar 24, 2011 MrFlipfly Says:
NY died with the AIDS epidemic. Guiliani wanted to sweep NY clean to make it safe for tourists afraid of anything too flashy. NY has been taken over by banks and chain stores. It's sterile, stale and made for the rich. The old has been replaced with faceless glass buildings. Tourists come but what happened to the character of NY? It's gone. I'd take old NY any day cuz' today you're certain to be robbed by another kind of criminal- those wearing blue and gray suits.
Mar 24, 2011 BobCat981 Says:
turn volume to minimal lvl :) after a minute of this music your ears will start to bleed :D a joke ofc.. seriously, music is kinda annoying (it's basically the same throughout the movie), but video is great. definitely a LIKE :) GJ
Mar 24, 2011 ben0765 Says:
I love it. I was a Stuyvesant High School student at the time, commuting daily from Brooklyn to E. 15th Street. I sensed at that time and place great potential for new creative possibilities and accomplishments. This was just before NYC was overrun by the first wave of Wall $treet profiteers and the unimaginable number of AIDS deaths. It was far from perfect: the city suffered from pollution, muggings, blight, and inefficient public transportation. But it also sparkled with discovery and hope.
Mar 23, 2011 chaallus Says:
FASCINATING! THANK YOU!
Mar 23, 2011 TGfeed Says:
we didn't shoot film with digital slr cameras in the 80s
Mar 23, 2011 KingWi11 Says:
why does everything from the 80s look like it has a slight sepia filter on it?
Mar 23, 2011 jayuhfree Says:
Makes today's NYC look like Disneyland!
Video Details
A five minute film by Rick Liss.
A portrait of New York City circa early 1980s, which was an extremely fertile time creatively in New York City. This is a record of the city at that time.
Music by Laurie Anderson.
Review:
Rick Liss's "NO YORK CITY" pulses viewers through the heart of an ico... More
A five minute film by Rick Liss.
A rait of New York City circa early 1980s, h was an extremely fertile time tively in New York City. This is a record he city at that time.
Music by Laurie rson.
Review:
Rick Liss's "NO YORK " pulses viewers through the heart of an ic metropolis at the speed of blood. ed in 1983 with an aesthetic that defies , this riveting work moves us with both nation and beauty.
The film sees the as an organism and its citizens as s-- sometimes frantic, sometimes in ony. We race across a harbor, speed ugh traffic, gawk at art, balk at erce, scuttle along sidewalks, weave ugh subways, bask in tickertape, dream ath an angel at Bethesda Fountain and t mimes in a boat on a great pond. As t falls, we join the electric carnival re soaring above the skyscrapers at .
The long day's journey is impeccably ght by Liss with a striking sound design, c by Laurie Anderson and Jeffrey Meyer, uences of Buñuel and Scorsese, and a on that's distinctly his own. It's an ing movie. Watch it.
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StephiaMadelyne Says:
Stayed Tuned!! And meanwhile, please visit (and "like") our burgeoning Facebook Fan page: No York City
drewgsands Says:
The Video is from the 1983 how far do you want to go back. You know nothing about NYC. 1st thing NYC has 26,000 places to eat that are not chain resturants. Museums, Broadway off broadway. Bloomingdales Diamond District, Tiffanys. My place in 1977 was 55k now 3.2 million Thank You Guiliani. In 1977 it was close to harlem and not great. Everything was bad. Everything rocks now and all is better. Crime is way way down Thanks, Bernard Goetz. life is good
level242 Says:
This looks like something you would see on HBO back in the 80's.
allstar2bein2023 Says:
Amazing.
67tr876 Says:
Some still used cams from the 60s and some got the best and newst cams they could get like i did.
67tr876 Says:
You had way better cams then that dude come on.
tombqnyc Says:
can't you wait for gays with guns to your ignorant head you freak moron? you will die off like scum mold and you are probably a mental closet case of some sort so gross that your mother spewed you out SONOFFATE aka SONOFAGGOT
MyAccount4TrollingU Says:
lol. Fucking ridiculous.
analbeadsish Says:
for the worst, and you're probably one of the hipster/yuppie faggots that made it happen
odilonvert Says:
I remember this era! Wonderful.
martinscott26 Says:
2:26 "kill him, kill him, ass to mouth"
andysapp Says:
That was awesome!
sonoffate Says:
Reminded me of a piece I made in 2008. vimeo.(dot)com/21526666 NYC definitely changed...
Schnakworld Says:
The mime population seems to have thinned out in the intervening decades, praise God.
BI30 Says:
I forgot just how dominant the WTC Towers were to the NYC skyliine. They stood out like no other building in the city.
Watcher3223 Says:
Of course, I could also be VERY wrong with what Mr. Liss intended with his short film or, perhaps, the film is left open to interpretation with its value being whatever anyone can get out of it.
Watcher3223 Says:
I agree, and there was another thing I seemed to perceive from the short: that NYC is also big and fast ... fast to the point where what goes on can pass by quickly like a proverbial snap of the fingers. The way that city has changed between 1983 and today is kind of a testament to that and, IMO, helps this short to age rather well. Basically, I'm thinking the moral is to stop and take it in 'cause the beauty hidden within the noise and confusion may vanish and never come again.
MrFlipfly Says:
NY died with the AIDS epidemic. Guiliani wanted to sweep NY clean to make it safe for tourists afraid of anything too flashy. NY has been taken over by banks and chain stores. It's sterile, stale and made for the rich. The old has been replaced with faceless glass buildings. Tourists come but what happened to the character of NY? It's gone. I'd take old NY any day cuz' today you're certain to be robbed by another kind of criminal- those wearing blue and gray suits.
BobCat981 Says:
turn volume to minimal lvl :) after a minute of this music your ears will start to bleed :D a joke ofc.. seriously, music is kinda annoying (it's basically the same throughout the movie), but video is great. definitely a LIKE :) GJ
ben0765 Says:
I love it. I was a Stuyvesant High School student at the time, commuting daily from Brooklyn to E. 15th Street. I sensed at that time and place great potential for new creative possibilities and accomplishments. This was just before NYC was overrun by the first wave of Wall $treet profiteers and the unimaginable number of AIDS deaths. It was far from perfect: the city suffered from pollution, muggings, blight, and inefficient public transportation. But it also sparkled with discovery and hope.
strgyn Says:
BRILLIANT!!
chaallus Says:
FASCINATING! THANK YOU!
TGfeed Says:
we didn't shoot film with digital slr cameras in the 80s
KingWi11 Says:
why does everything from the 80s look like it has a slight sepia filter on it?
jayuhfree Says:
Makes today's NYC look like Disneyland!