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ABSTRACT
The city symphony, which explores the new arrangements of space and time in modernity through montage and photogeny, displays the core characteristics of a cine-genre. However, this famously non-narrative form also contains stubbornly narrative elements, expressed as rhythm, that open onto possibilities for reflexive as well as urban critique. By exploring these elements in Tan Pin Pin’s In Time to Come (2017), I show how the city symphony as cine-genre encompasses a striking heterogeneity of form, offering an excavation of the rules that regulate urban existence.
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Erica Stein
Erica Stein is an assistant professor of film at Vassar College. Her work deals with the relationship of moving image media and urbanization and has appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Camera Obscura, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is the co-founder of Mediapolis: a Journal of Cities and Culture and the co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Her book on mid-century independent film and city planning, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York, was published by SUNY Press in 2021.