Mary Steichen's Skylark | 2009 | 11 minutes | 16mm silent | 1.33:1

Charles Sheeler's and Paul Strand's c. 1920 film Manhatta reimagined in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the Promenade Plantée
and other Parisian sites. The inventor of the Fantasmagorie makes an appearance, as do Walt Whitman's poetry, a hummingbird, and my niece, who likes snakes. A love letter to Paris's Manassas^eme arrondisement.

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