City Edition

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A relentlessly bleak, melancholic documentary movie about society and politics, with standout editing and direction.

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City Edition immerses us in a lived experience of the fourth estate, beginning with the print-run and purchase of a single issue of the New York Times; a rapid found-footage montage of political happenings, wars, sports, celebrity, and natural disasters ensues—the whole world in bits and pieces. These disparate scenes are woven in and out of one another as though rendering visually the dissonance of reading the folded pages of a newspaper as a singular thread of events.

Feels like

  • Found Footage Montage
  • Social Commentary
  • Non-Linear Narrative
  • Media Critique
  • Global Events
  • Fragmented Reality
  • Visual Essay
  • Historical Reflection
  • Experimental Cinema

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Directed by
Alan Berliner

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Facts

January 1, 1980 · Disturbing Imagery · Documentary

Released
January 1, 1980
Content
Disturbing Imagery
Genres
Documentary
Original language
English
Made in
United States