Beginning in the mid-to-late 1970's through the mid 1980's in New York City, an art & cultural movement exploded on the Lower East Side in the wake of the city's, and the country's, socio-economic turmoil. Spawning a myriad of new musical styles, bands, visual artists, nightclubs and cutting-edge filmmakers, the volatility and desperation gave us works which recorded and clearly marked the period before gentrification, Reaganomics and MTV began to commoditize the scene. In French director Céline Danhier's exceptional documentary film, BLANK CITY, she takes us on an in-depth chronicle of the rise & fall of the era's ...
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