Henry Hills

SSS by experimental filmmaker Henry Hills. Made in 1988, back when “high-low art” meant playing avant garde cello music over rapid-fire footage of people in zumba pants modern-dancing in gritty urban environs.

SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee Katz, Kumiko Kimoto, David Zambrano, Ginger Gillespie, Mark Dendy, and others, painstaking synched to music previously improvised for the project at Noise New York by Tom Cora (cello), Christian Marclay (turntables), and Zeena Parkins (harp). Beauty emerging from rubble.

Via Real Normal.