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Subtitled "A Day in New York," this color film turns everyday street life into a kaleidoscope of surreal images, distorting, fracturing and multiplying perfectly familiar images into a truly original visual experience. Filmed long before the advent of the flashy post-production techniques available to filmmakers today, all of the special effects in this extraordinary paean to New York were created using rare lenses owned by the filmmaker. Aldous Huxley wrote of the film, "In this very strange and beautiful picture we see the city of New York as it appears when photographed through multiplying prisms, or reflected in the backs of spoons, polished hub caps, spherical and parabolic mirrors. We still recognize houses, people, shop fronts, taxicabs, but recognize them as elements in one of those living geometries which are so characteristic of the visionary experience."
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