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Free Time

2019 · 61 min

A hushed, luminous drift through ordinary city moments, more like browsing an old photo album than watching a story.

Directed by
Manfred Kirchheimer
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Meticulously restored and constructed 16mm black-and-white footage shot in New York between 1958 and 1960. This lustrous evocation of a different rhythm of life captures the in-between moments—kids playing stickball, window washers, folks reading newspapers on their stoops—and the architectural beauty of urban spaces, set to the stirring sounds of Ravel, Bach, Eisler, and Count Basie.

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Directed by
Manfred Kirchheimer
Genres
Documentary
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    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • memory
    • work
    • art
    • isolation
    • aging
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension0
    Darkness1
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Manfred Kirchheimer
    Runtime
    61 min
    Country
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