DARK DAYS
Marc Singer, USA, 2000
Thursday 8 August 2002 9pm-10.20pm; rpt Wednesday 14 August 2002
11.45pm-1.05pm
Marc Singer's entertaining and incredibly moving film depicts an almost unimaginable community living in rail tunnels under New York City - a place swarming with rats, where trains roar past make-shift huts. DJ Shadow provides the film's haunting soundtrack.
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW
Marc Singer talks about living and filming underground
MORE INTERVIEWS DA Pennebaker and other Storyville directors talk about their films
Greg, a man in his late 30s who's been living in the tunnels for five years
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Commissioner's
Comment Nick
Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
In Dark Days Marc Singer has made an astonishing film - he spent two years living with the people who have made a home for themselves underground in New York City.
The film is shot in black and white, but it manages somehow to be sumptuous. And it gives a kind of dignity to its subjects as it unpacks their reasons for their marginal, underground life.
Dark Days is a real cinematic experience - you come away from it feeling differently about life, as well as knowing something more about living in the dark.
