Up Next in Shorts for Days: Cityscapes

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  À propos de Nice

  À propos de Nice

  Directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman • 1930 • France

  Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice. The fi...

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  N.U.

  N.U.

  Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1948 • Italy

  This 1948 film by Antonioni documents the lives of street cleaners in Rome. N.U. is short for Nettezza urbana, the Italian municipal cleaning service.

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  Daybreak Express

  Daybreak Express

  Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953 • United States

  Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, DAYBREAK EXPRESS was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington’s song of the same name. A jazz afi...