Anthology Film Archives - Calendar Events https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. en-us Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:45:19 -0500 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60535 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, January 02 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60536 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, January 02 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60537 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03 EC: RAPT https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60551 <p>“RAPT is, paradoxically, both a film which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that paradox can be resolved by an understanding of the film’s complex utilization of music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this respect it is reminiscent of the part-talkie genre…. It is linked to such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L’ÂGE D’OR. The radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic musical score. In making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the composers Honegger and Hoerce.” –Lucy Fisher<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, January 03 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60538 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03 EC: KUBELKA / LYE https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60552 <p>Peter Kubelka<br />MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm, <span>Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.</span>)<br />ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm)<br />SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min, 16mm)<br />ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm)<br />OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm)<br />“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage<br /><br />Len Lye<br />TUSALAVA (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent)<br />TRADE TATTOO (1937, 5 min, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum.)<br />RHYTHM (1957, 1 min, 16mm)<br />FREE RADICALS (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm)<br />A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 60 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, January 03 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60539 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60540 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, January 04 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60541 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, January 04 EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60553 <p>“The unique contribution of Land’s work lies in the fusion of intellectual reason and, significantly, the humor that distances it from the supposedly ‘boring’ world of avant-garde film. Having explored the basic properties of the celluloid strip itself in early works such as FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR…, his attention turned to the spectator in a series of ‘literal’ films that question the illusionary nature of cinema through the use of word play and visual ambiguity. His work often parodies experimental film itself by mimicking his contemporaries and mocking the solemn approach of film theorists and scholars.” –Mark Webber, TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND<br /><br />FLEMING FALOON (1963, 6 min, 16mm)<br />FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC. (1965-66, 5 min, 16mm, silent)<br />DIPLOTERATOLOGY (1967/78, 7 min, 16mm, silent)<br />THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER (1968, 9 min, 16mm)<br />INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY (1969, 5 min, 16mm)<br />REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (1970, 5 min, 16mm)<br />WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (1972, 13 min, 16mm)<br />THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT (1973, 6 min, 16mm)<br />A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1974, 11.5 min, 16mm)<br /><br />FILM IN WHICH…, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY, and FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR… have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 70 min.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr">CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</a></strong></p> Sunday, January 04 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60542 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, January 04 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60543 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, January 05 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60544 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, January 05