Manhatta

Manhatta

  • Charles Sheeler
  • Paul Strand
  • 1921
  • United States
  • 10 minutes
  • silent
  • DR
    DR

A visual poem on New York’s first skyscrapers, based on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It has been described as “the first avant garde” film in America.

  • Production : Paul Strand
  • Editing : Paul Strand; Charles Sheeler
  • Photography : Paul Strand; Charles Sheeler
  • Coy contact : Centre Pompidou

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