A short film by Carmen Vidal set in New York - winner of the Student Academy Award in 2006. It's a documentary in the "urban symphony" style, and depicts New York city in the moments before dawn.
There's something about cities waking up. When I think about mornings in the city I always think about Paris, when they clean the streets by running water through them, the sounds of a city which you hear all day, but more focused on.
Arnhem wakes up like that as well, cleaning, preparing the city for a new day, the guy across the street preparing the terrace, hours before the first visitors will arrive. He always ends his ritual by having a cappuchino on his favourite spot on that terrace. Great to watch when you know he has no clue that you watch him every morning.
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Nice movie. Indeed, the sight, the smell and the feeling of a city waking up is special. When we have a citytrip to Rome or Paris or something like that, opening up your window en see, feel and smell all the thing is so beautiful! Loading for a new day of a lot of people en dirt and doing the same thing all over again in 24 hours is a great fact about living in the cities. I have a little bit of that feeling when I walk through the citie of Bergen op Zoom to the station every morning.
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