New York City tour-guide-cum-street-poet Timothy "Speed" Levitch offers another round of his inimitable philosophical musings in director Richard Linklater's LIVE FROM SHIVA'S DANCE FLOOR. A sequel of sorts to the semi-biographical documentary THE CRUISE, this 21-minute film short... [More]

New York City tour-guide-cum-street-poet Timothy "Speed" Levitch offers another round of his inimitable philosophical musings in director Richard Linklater's LIVE FROM SHIVA'S DANCE FLOOR. A sequel of sorts to the semi-biographical documentary THE CRUISE, this 21-minute film short follows Levitch on a walking tour of lower Manhattan as he riffs on the metaphysical landscape of post-9/11 New York, and advances his own concept for a fitting World Trade Center memorial: 16 acres of grassy parkland populated by free-ranging American buffalo. Shot on handheld camera in a single day, Linklater's award-winning short is at once a vital dialogue on urban planning, a profound meditation on the twin forces of life and death, and a freewheeling portrait of a uniquely American character. [Less]