“Welcome to New York is a set of impressions, an exercise of inverted ethnography (from South to North) in which the directors show their contradictory encounter with the ‘Capital of the World.’ Tragedy and comedy alternate with strong contrasts while the camera goes across the city penetrating social classes, dog hotels, ethnic groups, fashion castings, political conflicts, pet cemeteries, photo shootings, religious communities, techno parties, electoral campaigns, all within the framework of the 2004 Presidential Election, in which George W. Bush was reelected.
But Welcome to New York is fundamentally a reflection on the contemporary human being, his inescapable animal nature and tragic fate. Instead of disappearing under a heavy layer of civilization, these philosophical topics seem to become more evident in the most influential city of the present world. What it is proposed through this tragicomic glance at reality is to face without cynicisms what seems to be inevitable and inherent to human existence: the heartrending and permanent contradictions between abundance and lack, humanity and animality, life and death.” —International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
WELCOME TO NEW YORK
A film by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff,
(Chile/Italy/Spain, 2006, 77 min. In English)
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