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ECHOES OF SILENCE  

Director: Peter Emanuel Goldman
Year: 1965
Runtime: 75 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: B&W
Format: 16mm

Miguel is an aimless and lonely young man who wanders through New York City (Penn Station, the Metropolitan Museum, Times Square) searching for a young woman who would be willing to spend a few hours with him. Occasionally, such a woman does go with him to his dismal Greenwich Village apartment, but through lack of physical desire and ineptitude the seduction usually ends in failure. Equally empty are the lives of his friends and neighbors; Astrid, a lesbian, haunts the bars on MacDougal Street; Stasia, her friend, picks up a fat out-of-towner in the hope of making a few dollars; Viraj and Robert return home after a frustrating night and begin a homosexual affair. At night these people return to the streets.

Also showing: "The Lead Shoes" (1949. USA. B&W. 17 min. dir. Sidney Peterson)


"The film has a thematic and formal beauty that is remarkable." — Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice

"This remarkable and sensitive film is one of the first American examples of a new existentialist humanism, devoid of certainty or illusion, infused with acceptance and compassion." — Amos Vogel


Showtime

Location

Admission

Monday, February 11
7:00 pm

STUDIO ON 4TH
432 East 4th Street

$6 General
$4 GBFS Members