New York City — a huge, slow pulse of light steaming through daytime and night time. A study of the soul of the city, its radiance, its isolates and its irates — the special souls who are lost to the vision of the workaday world but scorched into the vision of Cohen’s video world. A world of blindness, grace and vision. A world made more sacred by noise — the special noise composed in response to the city’s scorching radiance, another kind of soul music.
Content notification
Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.
Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.
Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1000092
Language
English
Audience classification
unclassified
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White and Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, black and white and colour and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [NTSC]; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan