
Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City. Told through five women artists, from youngest to oldest, the film features Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero. From the studio to the streets of New York, from the canals of Venice to the alleys of Cairo and the beaches of Phuket, Our City Dreams takes us deep into the artists' worlds.... (Full plot summary below)
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Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and successes as an artist in New York City. Told through five women artists, from youngest to oldest, the film features Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero. From the studio to the streets of New York, from the canals of Venice to the alleys of Cairo and the beaches of Phuket, Our City Dreams takes us deep into the artists' worlds.
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| New York PostV.A. MusettoClemente shows she knows a thing or two about filmmaking. As somebody once said: like father, like daughter. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOur City Dreams is a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaDocumentary portrait of five women artists is the wine-party view of art from socialite-filmmaker Chiara Clemente. |
| New York PressLeslie StonebrakerOur City Dreams is not just an art documentary; it is a piece of art itself ... |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChiara Clemente, a documentarian for Italian TV, gets in close enough to record her subjects' techniques but not close enough to reveal what makes the women tick. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayEach of Clemente's subjects is talented enough to support a feature-length documentary of her own. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferThose unfamiliar with art history or these five female artists will gain an appreciation for their artwork along with some basic knowledge of their career. However, art aficionados already familiar with them will feel mostly unenlightened and underwhelmed |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelIntimate opportunity to see successful women navigate the art world while infusing their work with feminist consciousness, but only glimpses of their lives and work process. |
| User ReviewKelly SWatching this documentary really makes me miss NYC and want to go back as soon as possible so that I can spend every day seeing art that I missed. |