Georgic for a Forgotten Planet

Overview

I began reading Virgil's Georgics, a 1st Century epic agricultural poem, and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my own relationship to the place where I live, New York City. Culled from material I collected at Coney Island, the Lower East Side, Socrates Sculpture Garden in Queens, a Brooklyn community garden and a place on Staten Island that is so dark you can see the three moons of Jupiter. An homage to a place many people affectionately and mysteriously call the Big Apple. - Lynne Sachs

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2009

Original language

English

Director

Lynne Sachs

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1512138