Film

One Hour

1990 · 1h · Documentary

Manhattan. July 26, 1990. 15:45 ~ 16:45.

IMDb

6.4

One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art

Taylor Mead

Peter Orlovsky

Odessa Taft

Jim Stark

Gangster

Kevin J. O'Connor

William Rice

• Robert FrankDirector · Writer
• Jerry PoyntonScreenplay
• Michal RovnerScreenplay

Release date

January 1, 1990

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

Documentary