“Ode To New York City” is a Cinematic Poem Short Film Featuring Walt Whitman Directed By Alessio Cuomo.
Directed & Edited by Alessio Cuomo
Cinematography by Rene Koster
Creative Director – Marco Barneveld
Narrated by Eric Forsythe
Music by Joe Kraemer
Portraits of Immigrants – New York Public Library
Additional Footage courtesy – McKittrick Hotel
“Travel magazine Wideoyster presents a poetry film about New York. Ode To New York by Walt Whitman. A poetry video we made for travel magazine WideOyster.
The poem Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun was published in 1865, but Whitmans sharp-witted observations of the city are, perhaps, even more relevant today than when the poem was written.
Walt loved New York. Even though at the time it was a tough city to live in. He felt energized instead of overwhelmed by its constant motion, heard music instead of madness, and saw humanity instead of strangeness in its crowds.”
dazzling;
orchard;
animals, teaching content;
of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars;
where I can walk undisturb’d;
I should never tire;
noise of the world, a rural domestic life;
by myself, for my own ears only;
O Nature, your primal sanities!
excitement, and rack’d by the war-strife;)
my heart,
your streets,
to give me up;
give me forever faces;
Article on film: http://www.wideoyster.nl/magazine3-eng/new-york-city/
Website: https://www.alessiocuomo.com/
