Light and the City

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his young second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight. 

This is a transfer from a 1-inch tape made in the 1980’s

Leo Hurwitz and Peggy Lawson

Year

1970

Runtime

20 minutes

Format

16mm

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THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS

presents

 

LIGHT AND THE CITY

 

A FILM BY

LEO HURWITZ

& PEGGY LAWSON

assisted by PETER ELISCU

 

voice:

  1. LEVY

 

music:

COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

Courtesy Vanguard Records

 

music consultant: THOMAS HURWITZ

 

consultants:

RUDOLPH ARNHEIM

ALICE KAPLAN

ROY MOYER

this film was made possible by

a grant from THE FORD FOUNDATION

 

A LEO HURWITZ PRODUCTION