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Compiled from more than 1,000 still photographs, the Israeli-born US-based director Ynon Lan’s short film NYC Textures transforms some of New York’s most ubiquitous sights – from the city’s brick walls and subway steps to the grass and bark of Central Park – into an energetic, jazzy abstraction. Or it’s a day’s worth of brisk urban walking condensed into a minute and a half.
Director: Ynon Lan
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Human rights and justice
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Language and linguistics
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Art
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Values and beliefs
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Consciousness and altered states
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Meaning and the good life
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Making
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Animals and humans
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Computing and artificial intelligence
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