Shorts: Urban Rhythms

A series of short films that captures the pulse, life, and energy of cities around the world.

Paris, Un Jour d’Hiver (1965)

Guy Gilles strolls through Paris with his camera on a winter’s day. He follows passersby, children playing in the snow, the gazes of people behind windows, and plays with the fog and the bare trees of winter.

Guy Gilles

France

1965

16 min

Broadway by Light (1959)

Filmmaker and photographer William Klein left behind an eclectic and visually extraordinary career. His first film, Broadway by Lightis an avant-garde short intoxicated by the colorful, abstract, and pop potential of Manhattan's neon light displays.

William Klein

United States

1959

12 min

City of Athens: A Portrait of a Changing Metropolis (2018)

A non-narrative short film that offers a poetic portrait of a transforming metropolis. Directed by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Alexandros Maragos, the film captures the changing essence of Athens through images that reveal its rhythm, energy, and constant evolution.

Alexandros Maragos

Greece

2018

5 min

Jama Masjid Street Journal (1979)

Produced as Nair's thesis project at Harvard, this fascinating diary-like encounter captures the cacophony of street life around the Jama Masjid, or Grand Mosque, in Old Delhi, India.

Mira Nair

India

1979

20 min