What happens at the all-night corner shop before sunrise

Name: What happens at the all-night corner shop before sunrise | Aeon Videos
Uploaded: 2017-05-08
Duration: 7 min
Description: What happens at the all-night corner shop before sunrise

In the early morning light, the small moments that start a day in the city slip from the mundane to the unexpected and back again, filled with meaning that’s just out of reach. In Notes from a News Stand, filmed by the US director Michael Faller near the Broadway Junction subway stop in the East New York neighbourhood in Brooklyn, the pre-dawn interactions at a small corner shop take on the qualities of a dream – vividly real, yet fragmented.

Director: Michael Faller

Score: Michael Odmark

8 May 2017

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