Necrology

A haunting, meditative avant-garde documentary that transforms a mundane commute into a memento mori, finding death and emptiness in the mechanical faces of urban routine.

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.