Guy Maddin and David C. Roberts Discuss Song of My City, City Symphonies and the Vivisection of Cinema

Steam pouring from manhole covers, the neon-lights of 42nd street seen through rain-streaked taxicab windows, phalanxes of cops spied from tenement rooftops as they sweep a city block - David C. Robertss Song of My City distills the visual rushes of a score of 1970s and early 80s New York City-set film classics into a 15-minute city symphony of sorts. Drawing inspiration from 1920s pictures such as Walter Ruttmans Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis, Roberts has pulled shots from Taxi Driver, Dog D...