Quiet City

Quiet Is Loud, Loud Is Quiet,  a Movie That Found Me Too Tired to Untie It

I've been away dealing with some recurring health issues that have persisted for about a year. Just before I was hospitalized a few weeks back, I watched Aaron Katz's 2007 Quiet City, the follow-up to the filmmaker's Dance Party, USA. (Both are available on Blu-ray in a nice two-film set from Circle Collective.) I rewatched Quiet City the other night and the film finds me perplexed. These are notes I found on my phone a few nights ago.

pens up the space to the subway platform by Seventh Ave

Aaron Copland

Sucks the atmosphere away

Adults playing toy musical instruments made for kids or like the Chris Gethard show

the blank walls in convo w actors

Rooftop convo

The image in urban isolation /

The honeymoon of many coming close then pulling

He uses his butterfly antics ? -

Swanberg shows up

Like Hanukkah or Yom Kippur

The common principles have evolved to Queen/Palookaville as a refreshed Independent American Cinema

a satire of a satire

Sifting through the piles of Trade Center

Desperate to break from their own frames

Come alive at the house-hang. Torture.

11 years from now the wedding album and FB posts of photos.. made a film once, in the past - bucket list •

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Other writing at Cinemasparagus on the films of Aaron Katz:

Dance Party, USA [2006]

Quiet City [2007]

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