Product Details

• Actors: Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, Swoon
• Directors: Chiara Clemente
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
• DVD Release Date: June 23, 2009
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001VEC88Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,040 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Our City Dreams" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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OUR CITY DREAMS - DVD Movie

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent documentary!, May 30, 2010

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Adriana B. Carrasco (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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Watching this excellent documentary showing these wonderful artist's ways of thinking, their creative processes, their commitment to art, and how living in New York is special for them, was great! I have watched the film over 3 times already and each time I find something else to discover in it.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars dreams, October 12, 2009

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Lesser Knowns (San Mateo, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

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Length:: 2:32 Mins

An amazing film, keeps you involved from start to finish.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars only fair-to-middling documentary, October 25, 2009

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Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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**1/2

The documentary "Our City Dreams" profiles five visual and performance artists - Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic and Nancy Spero - who have their homes and studios in New York City. Each of them comes from a different part of the world and each is at a different stage of her career and life. Director Chiara Clemente spends not much more than a few moments with each of the women as they dabble in their work and chat about their backgrounds, the struggles they've had to overcome as women artists, and their individual views on art.

"Our City Dreams" is probably of greatest interest to those who already have a degree of familiarity with some or all of the movie's subjects. For the run-of-the-mill disinterested observer, on the other hand, the movie will likely hold far less fascination. The problem may lie in the overreaching nature of the film which doesn't allow us to get to know as much about these women as we would if the film featured only one or two of them, say, instead of all five. Individually, they certainly seem like lovely people but they tend to subtract from - rather than add to - one another when lumped together as a group. That's not to say that there aren't some lyrical and poignant moments woven throughout the film; it's just that we don't feel we learn all that much about their art - or the influences on their art - in the short time we get to spend with them. In fact, the movie doesn't even really explore how New York City itself inspired or informed much of their output as artists, which is, we presume, the intended purpose and goal of the film.