N.Y., N.Y.

Skyscrapers rising like shards of crystals, an endless plethora of lights, New York City is seen through a kaleidoscope. A captivating, playful, beautifully colorful, and psychedelic spectacle. This short film fulfilled exactly what I expected from this year's LFŠ section on urban symphonies. With a better-chosen soundtrack, it would have been a properly hypnotic projection. [LFS 2019] (01/08/2019)

This is undoubtedly a unique tribute to the genre of urban symphony from the very first dance shots, moving away from the effort to capture the city in its real form, not wanting to present just the lyricism of the mundane, but wanting to transform the whole city into lyrics. A kaleidoscope of colors and music mixing with the shapes of architecture in the waves of jazz music notes gradually distills and ferments the real shapes of the metropolis to the level of an animated cartoon rather than surrealistic canvases because, despite the similarity to Dalí's images of incredibly breaking and twisted thousand-ton concrete monsters, the images from N.Y., N.Y. always maintain dynamism and movement (unique to the city that never sleeps), even though they are closer to strongly tempered animation with their abstraction, contours, and colorfulness. (13/09/2015)