2015 | United States | Experimental

Division Avenue

  • English 13 mins
  • Director | Anne-Katrine Hansen, Janna Kyllästinen
  • Writer | Anne-Katrine Hansen, Janna Kyllästinen
  • Producer | Alexandra Lazarowich

STATUS: Released

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Division Avenue (2014) is an experimental short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of New York, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Examining the architecture and fabric of the highway through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings, the film reveals traces of lives lived in the shadow of the massive concrete sculpture. Built through densely inhabited neighborhoods, the modernist highway of the controversial city planner Robert Moses reshaped and disrupted the city forever, creating vast non-spaces within once thriving communities. Division Avenue invites the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way.

Urban Infrastructure Community Architecture Soundscape