" Mark Street combines the strengths of the city symphony, the essay-film, and the experimental film in one tender, dazzling package which conveys the weirdness and fresh humanity of daily life”. “ The globe is Mark Street’s cinematic canvas onto which he impresses shimmering reflections and lyric montage sequences”. "This second volume of Street’s work ends up being symbolic of the current preoccupation with the death of film. …Yet, the vitality of his use of film is so life-affirming that it would appear that this art form will no doubt evolve and only disappear when Kodak shuts down operations. Highly recommended for film studies, cultural studies, and art". Recommended Educational Uses: |
Urban wanderings inspire these six experimental films -- from a collage of movie trailers found outside a Brooklyn theater, to an evocation of an Uruguayan poet's life as a bookeeper, to a compendium of vox populi interviews gleaned from city streets. Created over 10 years, this collection reveals the urban experience with verve and insight. |
Trailer Trash Theatrical trailers rescued from the trash and hand painted to hold up a funhouse mirror to the industry of expectations. -Oblo Film Festival, Lausanne, (Switzerland), 2009 |
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Collision of Parts An investigation of montage. Short segments filmed on city streets mingle and mix. -Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY, 2010 |
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Sueldo/ Licensia 8 min | Video | 2010 An adaptation of Mario Benedetti’s poems using Montevideo, Uruguay as a melancholic backdrop. |
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A Year A tattered diary film that meditates on the vagaries of middle age. - Tribeca Film Festival, 2007 |
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Brooklyn Promenade 3 min | 16 min/ DVCam | 2001 A walk in Brooklyn after 9/11 allows the filmmaker’s children to reflect on what just happened. |
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Happy?
“Are you happy?” This simple query, asked of hundreds of passers by in NYC, led to a series of ruminations about the passage of time and the nature of contentment. |
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Cuadro por Cuadro ( Frame by Frame) A documentary of a workshop taught in Montevideo, Uruguay in which participants handpaint found footage. -Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Art, 2010 |
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