Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Friberg, Conrad
• Kinik, Anthony
• Hielscher, Eva
• Jacobs, Steven

Titel

Halsted Street

Ist Teil von

• The City Symphony Phenomenon, 2019, p.300-301

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A member of the Workers Film and Photo League who also used the pseudonym Conrad O. Nelson, Conrad Friberg made a silent city symphony about Chicago in 1934. Hauser, like Ruttmann and others, presented the city as a space of simultaneity, whereas Friberg introduced an alternative to the cross-section idea of the life of a city. By tracing the length of Halsted Street from south to north through the entire cityscape, Friberg short film preserves the spatial structure of urban space, and literally cuts through the city. Friberg announces his course in an opening intertitle that "This Film Presents a Cross Section of Chicago As Seen On Halsted Street." Due to the length of the street, the film shows a variety of Chicago neighborhoods, which unfold successively on the screen; shop and restaurant signs mark the different ethnic districts, as the film also explores the city as a space of textual inscription.