DW Young (https://www.dwyoungfilm.com/) premiered his latest short Dancing on the Silk Razor at Woodstock Film Fest shortly before playing at last week’s Reunion night at Alamo Drafthouse NYC. It gifts us 20 minutes of Wallace Shawn narration (including the word ‘conceivable’!) telling a story built off a single line written years ago by a friend of DW’s. The story reminds me of the particular existential dread of Paul Auster. It’s a very New York and Jewish and male existential dread in my sense. Something to watch after reading Groucho Marx’s biography. The actor portraying the subject could not not have had a beard. It’s very analog, as we talk about. DW most recently released his documentary The Booksellers, a love letter to a certain type of upper west sider or a person who calls the area now known as west village ‘Greenwich Village’. One of my favorite faux-nostalgic feelings for times I did not experience is NYC when we had a ‘book row.’ I appreciate DW’s work because I have a relationship with all of the feelings he seems to be investigating. I feel like the lens is pointed at me and his work leaves me considering my choices. I love art like this. Art that makes me think. The best testament I can get after a Reunion night is people asking for intros and links to share the works with friends, which I’ve received a few of since last week. DW and Judith Mizrachy have their latest documentary Uncropped, the story of photographer James Hamilton, another analog NYC story, premiering as centerpiece of DOC NYC in November. Please check it out. https://www.docnyc.net/film/uncropped/
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