Blank City

Blank City is a 2009 film directed by Celine Danhier. "New York at the end of the seventies was a virtually bankrupt city. Poverty was on the increase – and with it, the crime rate. And yet New York was a city that had an extraordinarily rich contribution to make in cinematic terms, for here, on the Lower East Side of downtown Manhattan, something new was evolving: an independent, enduring cinema, made by young filmmakers, who, inspired by contemporary music such as punk and new wave, were discovering new topics and new forms of expression. ‘No Wave’ cinema or the ‘Cinema of Transgression’ also reveals the influence of the French Nouvelle Vague and American film noir; Andy Warhol was one of its proponents, as was John Waters. The East...