URBANSCAPES is an intimate portrait of the margins of urban America, a fresco of its forgotten corners whose voice has remained unheard for decades.The film takes place in four different cities, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Newark, and features a total of 6 different characters who have witnessed the dramatic transformation of their neighborhoods.The documentary opens as the personal obsession of a solitary photographer, Camilo J. Vergara, who has kept track of the fate of American cities for
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Occasionally undercuts its own purpose by offering harshly minimalist, meticulously framed images -- underscored by everything from Mozart and Bach to Eminem and Motown -- that achieve, almost perversely, a stark, stripped-to-essentials splendor.
The documentary Urbanscapes plants a camera in neighborhoods gone to seed, cultivating a bittersweet portrait of American ruin.
Urbanscapes analyzes urban blight as a recurring phenomenon, with economic, social, and moral dimensions.
The directors compromise a subtle and clever argument with a tacked-on discussion of the collapse of the Twin Towers.
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