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New York Minute

This work continues Lynn Bianchi’s relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown - the year of loneliness and isolation - yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window - still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime.

  • Lynn Bianchi
    Director
  • Lynn Bianchi
    Cinematography
  • Yana Birykova
    Editing
  • Sweet Megg
    Music
  • Hannah Gill
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 37 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 6, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Amsterdam World International Film Festival
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    April 5, 2021
    European Premiere
    Best Cinematography
  • Falcon International Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 30, 2021
    UK Premiere
    Best Experimental
  • New York Independent Cinema Awards
    New York
    United States
    April 20, 2021
    North American Premiere
  • London International Short Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    May 6, 2021
  • Manhattan Rep's STORIES Film Festival
    New York, NY
    United States
    May 1, 2021
  • Niagara Canada International Film Festival
    Niagara Falls, Ontario
    Canada
    May 22, 2021
    Canadian Premiere
  • Best Director Award
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 30, 2021
  • Florence Film Awards
    Florence
    Italy
    May 5, 2021
    Best Picture
  • New York International Film Awards™ - NYIFA
    New York, New York
    United States
    May 6, 2021
    Best Experimental Film
  • New York International Reel Film Festival
    New York City
    United States
    May 7, 2021
  • New York Film Awards
    New York, New York
    United States
    May 9, 2021
    Best Picture
  • San Diego Movie Awards
    San Diego, California
    United States
    June 18, 2021
    Award of Prestige: Best Experimental
  • Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    United States
    June 25, 2021
  • Toronto Film Magazine Fest
    Toronto
    Canada
    June 10, 2021
    Winner: Best Experimental
  • Montreal Independent Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    June 13, 2021
    Official Selection
  • RAGFF Venezia
    Venice
    Italy
    June 14, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Last Shot Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    June 15, 2021
  • San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (SFFFF)
    San Francisco, CA
    United States
    July 14, 2021
  • FLICKFAIR
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    July 1, 2021
    Award: Best Experimental
  • International Independent Film Awards
    Encino, CA
    United States
    July 8, 2021
    Gold Winner
  • Calgary Independent Film Festival
    Calgary
    Canada
    July 10, 2021
  • New Wave Short Film Festival
    Munich
    Germany
    July 2, 2021
    Award Winner: Best Experimental
  • New York City IO Film Festival
    Brooklyn, New York
    United States
    November 7, 2021
    Official Selection
  • BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
    Bilbao
    Spain
    October 3, 2021
  • 2021 ARFF Amsterdam // International Awards 2021
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    September 24, 2021
  • Chicago Indie Film Awards
    Chicago
    United States
    August 4, 2021
  • New Faces New Voices
    New York, NY
    United States
    September 17, 2021
  • Lund International Architecture Film Festival 2021
    Lund
    Sweden
    October 15, 2021
  • New York Shorts International Film Festival
    New York, NY
    United States
    October 29, 2021
  • Syracuse International Film Festival
    Syracuse, NY
    United States
    October 20, 2021
  • YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival
    Yonkers, NY
    United States
    November 5, 2021
  • Motion Pictures International Film Festival
    Abuja
    Nigeria
    November 17, 2021
  • MalatestaShort Film Festival
    Cesena
    Italy
    November 12, 2021
  • Hudson NY Shorts
    Hudson, NY
    United States
    November 5, 2021
  • RAGFF New York City
    New York, NY
    United States
    November 9, 2021
Director Biography - Lynn Bianchi

Lynn Bianchi is a fine art photographer and multimedia artist who has shown her work in over thirty solo exhibitions and in museums worldwide.
Bianchi’s photographic work has been shown at Brooklyn Museum, Yale Art Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto among others. Servitude I from the Heavy In White series was added to the collection of Walker Art Center in 2019. The work is also reproduced in the Walker’s catalogue The Expressionist Figure among such artists as Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, etc.
Bianchi’s art has been featured in over forty publications, including The Huffington Post, Juxtapoz Magazine, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vogue Italia, AnOther Magazine, Phot’Art International, and GEO. Lynn’s work resides in numerous private collections across the globe, including Manfred Heiting’s and Edward Norton’s, as well as in museum collections including Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, Biblioteque Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Ken Damy in Brescia, Italy and 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky among others. She has recently exhibited in New York City at The Untitled Space, The Armory Show and BitBazel Miami NFT salon at Salomon Arts Gallery among others.
In 2011 Lynn began working in the video field and has to date produced about 30 multimedia works. Her most recent projects are frequent winners of Best Experimental Awards and have been shown at various festivals all over the world, including New York Shorts International Film Festival, Odense International Film Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Berlin Shorts Award, Moscow Shorts, Lund Architecture Film Festival, Budapest International Foto Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, New Earth International Film Festival in Poland, Toronto Film Magazine Festival among others. Most recently, Bianchi’s video work New York Minute participated in over 20 different film festivals around the world and was shown to the public at Cinema Village and Alamo Drafthouse in New York City among others.
Lynn’s latest works are suspended between Henri Cartier-Bresson’s idea that to photograph is to hold one’s breath with all faculties converged in an effort to capture fleeting reality, and the belief that flowing processes that transcend reality cannot be entirely captured by static images. By capturing the natural world Bianchi illustrates our human emotions and motivations. The perpetual movements of the ocean or the endless variations of a skyscape reflect our own shifting internal gestures. The artist looks for the precise moment when mastering a static or moving image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

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Director Statement

Bombarded by the constant flux of information injected into our lives by technology, we are losing our ability to contemplate. But can technology be turned upon itself and help us feel in a deep, spiritual way? To investigate this, I turned to mixed media. In my work, I master a composite moving image to allow for the grandeur and magic of The Everyday to unfold. I see my video work as an extension of the still image. This combination of moving and still images expresses our shifting internal gestures – where the Eternal is reconciled with the Quotidian.