This hour-long film tackles the issue of homelessness from an unusual perspective, portraying its featured subjects not as downtrodden, broken men and women but as individuals who use self-expression as a way of coping with the slings and arrows of daily life. Creativity, we see, takes many forms on the street, from self-inspired songwriting to wire-sculpting and statue-crafting by a schizophrenic. NEW YORK: IMAGES FROM THE EDGE invites us into the artists' worlds, taking us from the Outsider Art Fair to their thoughts on issues like unemployment, the authorities, drug dependency, and poverty.