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Short film

Pestilent City

1967 · 16 min

A grim, wordless drift through crowded streets that feels like a slow, uneasy stare at urban decay.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
Pestilent City covers Manhattan from South to North, from Times Square to Harlem, finding along the way ever more poverty, violence, rage and tragic drunkenness.
How it feels
Bleak, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Isolation, politics, violence, addiction
Content
Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Peter Emanuel Goldman
Runtime
16 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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