FILM

“Pestilent City was made in 1965, a few months after Echoes of Silence. Yet another cry of rage tossed at the throat of New York, shot as an inhumane city, in slow motion and in the negative. More and more, Goldman appeared to me as a loony Murnau coming from the night of time, bringing again to the 60s – with the violence of youth culture and the brutality of underground – the great debates between silent cinema, the cinema of the force of the face, and photography, the power of still images. Goldman is a filmmaker of the masses, of the wandering, of the flowing, and at the same time a filmmaker of frames, of images that suddenly stand still out of exhaustion, as a result of the condensation of affects.” - Philippe Azoury