Selected Views

A patient, contemplative look through a window at a city's hidden rhythms, rewarding viewers who settle into its slow, observational gaze.

Directed by

Jonah Groeneboer

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Following more than three years of exploratory research, photography, and writing about the singular view from his Brooklyn studio, Groeneboer took up a daily practice over the subsequent two and a half years of filming the panorama through his window. This process entailed a durational commitment to witnessing the presence of architectures and systems that are often hidden from everyday life. The resulting film is a visual meditation that follows the cyclical rhythms of weather and industry to offer a portrait of New York City in relation to the forces that shape it, including late-stage capitalism and environmental crises. [Overview Courtesy of The Kitchen]

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Environment, politics, work, isolation

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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