The Dryden will screen Short Films of Rudy Burckhardt, including:

• Under The Brooklyn Bridge (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1953, 15 min., 16mm): "One cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences—the children swimming under the Brooklyn Bridge is one—which belong with the best footage on New York by anybody." — Jonas Mekas
• Square Times (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1967, 7 min., 16mm): "A Saturday night on 42nd Street, from dusk to dawn. The glamour, the garbage, the hot dogs, the movies, the sex and the violence in the air—with music by The Supremes."
• Doldrums (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1972, 18 min., 16mm): "The New Jersey Turnpike and downtown New York in rain and shine. Trailer trucks, overpasses, and industrial wastes become natural wonders. The stream of trucks is often gay, buts sometimes ominous. After a thunderstorm, the pike gives way to charming and sexy shoppers on 14th St. Real sounds and wonderful color." — Edmund Leites
• Default Averted (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1975, 20 min., 16mm): "When New York was about to go bankrupt, all construction had stopped, and an architect tried to become a wrecker. The story of the demolition of a large factory building on 23rd and 6th, while daily business, grimy or funny, money or no money, goes on as usual all around. In stark black and white, with music by Thelonious Monk and Edgar Varese."
• Dwellings (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1975, 13 min., 16mm): "Charles Simonds is building strange structures of tiny bricks in the crumbling walls of New York's Lower East Side, for his 'Little People,' as the astonished neighborhood kids look on."
• Sodom and Gomorrah, New York 10036 (Rudy Burckhardt, U.S. 1976, 7 min., 16mm): "A documentary about the sex industry around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street."

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Oct-5]