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Lucy Walker

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Mountain Queen
Of Night And Light
How To Change Your Mind
Bring Your Own Brigade
Defying Gravity
Oh, What a Beautiful City
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Wolvesmouth
The Lion’s Mouth Opens
David Hockney IN THE NOW
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
The Crash Reel
Countdown To Zero
Waste Land
Blindsight
Devil’s Playground
Why Did You Kill Me?
Ram Dass, Going Home
VR
Other Shorts
Oh, What a Beautiful City (2017) 


A day in the life of New York City’s Hamilton Fish Pool on the Lower East Side, a public community space that encapsulates the defiantly inclusive spirit of the city on a sultry summer’s day. Created for The New Yorker, inspired by Christoph Neimann’s New Yorker cover ‘Dropped Call’, and commissioned by Qualcomm, the film premiered at the 2017 New Yorker Festival and DocNYC Film Festival and features beautiful verité cinematography by Lucy’s longtime collaborator Aaron Phillips and a gorgeous arrangement of Marian Anderson’s Oh What a Beautiful City by Reza Safinia commissioned to score the film.

Watch the full short film here:


Christoph Neimann’s inspiring New Yorker cover:


Stills of Hamilton Fish Pool through the course of a day: