Relive ’90s New York from a Manhattan window

Wolfgang Tillmans – 14th Street (1994/95)

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Produced over several weeks during the winter of 1994-1995, this 28-minute video offers a view of New York at the time through the life of a Manhattan street. From his apartment on the second floor, the German artist captures merchants and street vendors, busy passers-by and strollers tempted by window shopping, homeless people or even soldiers patrolling the neighborhood. Inspired by the famous Window on courtyard by Alfred Hitchcock, who in 1954 made curiosity and the neighborhood the object of his fiction, Wolfgang Tillmans presents here a rambling, almost documentary reinterpretation, capturing without narration the bygone atmosphere of a metropolis which has since changed considerably. Although made 25 years ago, this film today finds a very particular echo to the current situation where confined to home, everyone can be tempted by the curious and discreet observation of his neighbors or passers-by in his street. behind his window frame.

The film 14th Street by Wolfgang Tillmans is available for free on Vimeo until Monday March 30.

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