Long for the City
Jem Cohen
2008 | 00:09:10 | United States | English | B&W | Stereo | 4:3 | Film
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Artist Spaces, City, Music
Long for the City is a short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote, and then a later one, "Prayer", from the early 1970s. We take a walk in her changing neighborhood, and I ask her what she saw. Footage was shot in the moment, as well as drawn from the archive I've gathered over many years. Long for the City can be considered a non-musical companion piece to the music short, Spirit, which we collaborated on in 2007. It had its premier as an installation in Patti Smith's show, Land 250, and Fondation Cartier in Paris.
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