Division Avenue | experimental short film (2015)

“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”

– Robert Moses, city planner, head of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway project

A film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of New York, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Examining the architecture and fabric of the highway through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings, the film reveals traces of lives lived in the shadow of the massive concrete sculpture.

Directed by Anne-Katrine Hansen & Janna Kyllästinen

Select Screenings Brooklyn Film Festival | Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen | MEDIAWAVE International Film Festival Hungary | ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna | Bushwick Film Festival | Ethnofest Athens Ethnographic Film Festival | One With A Movie Camera – Marburg International Ethnographic Film Festival | Bushwick Cinema Sundays | Speechless Film Festival Minnesota

Best Experimental Documentary Brooklyn Film Festival

Distributed by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative

Available on the Criterion Channel