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FREE TIME a film by MANFRED KIRCHHEIMER. 2019. USA. 61 min. A breezy summertime city symphony composed of gorgeous 16mm footage from the ‘50s. Shot on a 16mm Bolex between 1957 and 1960 but not completed for another 60 years, Manfred Kirchheimer’s Free Time travels to a lost New York. In the 92-year-old filmmaker’s latest feature, he offers a counter-portrait of his adopted metropolis, refraining from representing New York’s infamous hustle-and-bustle in favor of depicting its residents’ idle pastimes—children playing stickball, mothers smoking on stoops, and men strolling beneath skyscrapers’ shade.
