City Symphony Movies

The last days of summer captured on 16mm.

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall...

A personal city symphony where an eco-anxious soul explores the intersections of natural and artificial. The filmmaker’s internal conflicts are...

An audio-visual experience through the perspective of an iPhone depicting a harmonious city during the day quickly descend into technological madness...

Alex is a shy, antisocial young man who finds a refuge from his daily routine at the subway. During his wanderings, he meets Sofia, a woman who seems...

A frenetic found-footage documentary made entirely from “lost” unlabeled media on YouTube - weaving together nearly a thousand raw...

A look at what the future might hold for us all

Two friends travel around the city of Reno, Nevada, and go skating at a nearby parking garage.

Gubara was proud of the first color film in African cinema, which attempts to give an African response to the city symphony genre by capturing...

A "city symphony" film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago, City to See is a...

Compiled from stock footage, Livestock is a visual poem exploring the digital, physical and metaphysical synergy of the modern workplace.

At the Myrtle-Wyckoff intersection, transportation arteries and the community overlap and interact, connect and collide, react and respond. Where are...