GME Streamline Presents a Limited Time Free Stream of NATIVE NEW YORKER, also Available as a DSL Download
/"...the stuff dreams - and nightmares - are made of." -The Austin Chronicle
Winner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire). This film is a pre-eminent but unknown City Symphony film that we present as GME’s accompaniment to the program of New York City Symphony screening concurrently at MoMA. We are also currently presenting it as a free stream at GME Streamline for a limited time.
TERRY 'COYOTE' MURPHY IN A SCENE FROM NATIVE NEW YORKER
Jon Gartenberg, GME President and former Experimental Film Curator for the Tribeca Film Festival:
"I am a film historian, and I've been watching silent films for a long time, and I can tell when something is very uniquely created, and that was my first response to Steve's film. It's not formulaic or routine or glossy at all. This is not a film that was going to get anyone an agent or a Hollywood deal; it's a very personal film, and that's the first thing that impressed me about it. The second thing I found intriguing was that, yes, it does have a 9/11 element to it, but you don't find that out until much later in the film, so that it takes on a much more intense emotional resonance. What's interesting about that is the fact that at Tribeca, which was founded coming out of 9/11, we still get films that refer to 9/11, but it's no longer the central or main premise of film. There's a certain subtlety that's emerged over time, and Steve's film is a perfect example of that. And the third thing that attracted me to 'Native New Yorker' is the fact that it fit into what I call the tradition of the city symphony films. Usually these were old, silent films that attempted to show the life of a city from morning to night. Steve's film is more structured geographically, from Upper Manhattan to Lower Manhattan, and so, to me, it's a city symphony functioning on a different level. And, also, it was made with this old, historical camera. It's a document of history created by a piece of history. And fourth, on a social and political level, the film equalizes in a sense the death and destruction caused by the terrorist attackers on 9/11 vs. the historic displacement and death of the Native Americans by the occupying Europeans centuries earlier."
Shot before, during and after 9/11, NATIVE NEW YORKER took several years of filming with a 1924 hand-cranked Cine-Kodak camera.
NATIVE NEW YORKER contains a haunting score by award winning American composer William Susman (also a producer of the film) and is currently streaming for free for a limited time on GME Streamline.
NATIVE NEW YORKER is also available worldwide exclusively from GME for acquisition as a 1080p .mp4 downloadable DSL file and for acquisition and exhibition by cultural organizations, as well as for clip licensing by commercial productions.
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