NY, NY

"NY,NY"  est un film expérimental, en forme de poème cinématographique abstrait, réalisé par Francis Thompson en 1957. Une collection de scènes tournées à New York pendant 8 ans et traitées au travers de prismes, de lentilles, de miroirs et autres étranges kaléidoscopies. 

"NY,NY" is an experimental movie, as an abstract ciné-poème, directed by Francis Thompson in 1957. A collection of scenes recorded in New York City for 8 years long and treated by special prisms, lenses, mirrors and other strange kaleidoscops. 

 

Aldous Huxley in his essay "Heaven and Hell" wrote:

"And then there is what may be called the Distorted Documentary a new form of visionary art, admirably exemplified by Mr. Francis Thompson's film, NY, NY. In this very strange and beautiful picture we see the city of New York as it appears when photographed through multiplying prisms, or reflected in the backs of spoons, polished hub caps, spherical and parabolic mirrors. We still recognize houses, people, shop fronts, taxicabs, but recognize them as elements in one of those living geometries which are so characteristic of the visionary experience. The invention of this new cinematographic art seems to presage (thank heaven!) the supersession and early demise of non-representational painting...Looking at NY, NY, I was amazed to see that virtually every pictorial device invented by the old masters of non-representational art and reproduced ad nauseam by the academicians and mannerists of the school, for the last forty years or more, makes its appearance, alive, glowing, intensely significant, in the sequences of Mr. Thompson's film.^"  A.H. 1956

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