Coming to theatres today, Friday, May 2: MORE THAN THE RAINBOW
Dan Wechsler’s portrait of a New York street photographer had its world premiere at DOC NYC in 2012. It also screened at SF DocFest and at the Coney Island Film Festival, where it won best documentary.
From behind the wheel of the taxi cab he drove in the late 1970s-1980s, Matt Weber captured scenes of NYC life with his camera, often focusing on lives on the margins, people who were otherwise rarely the subject of a photographer’s lens. Self-taught, he made the plunge to full-time artist in 1990, selling his hack medallion and taking to the streets to follow his passion. Wechsler’s appealing film provides a platform for Weber to reveal his story, and that of his beloved city, frozen in time in his evocative black and white portraits. Weber makes for an affable Everyman, bolstered by comments from admirers and fellow street photogs, as they reflect on the changing face of their artform and of the cities they chronicle.
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