Interview with Benjamin Aranda
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	A: (cont.) But right when we were ready to call it a loss, he'd reappear on the roof ledge wearing the camera. He looked exhausted. He would fly away for long durations and we'd think he had quit, walked off the job -- fed up and gone for good. Q: What is the relationship between your work as a video/filmmaker and life in the New York metropolitan area? A: A couple of years ago I started making short videos about the city as a research arm of an architecture studio I had founded with my partner, Chris Lasch. We made a number of small, bite-size experiments, commercial length, each about New York City through some abstract treatment. Coming from architecture, video was a liberating medium in what types of issues you could capture and communicate. page 4
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