Synopsis
"Years ago, I was working on a movie..." is both a documentary "sort of" and a series of stories being told by Tom Jarmusch, driving his car while I'm shooting the lights of New York City at night. It is a journey, a promenade, wandering the streets of the city as well as Tom's stories about NYC in the 90ies, and cinema, and stores that don't exist anymore. It is also a documentary about the birth of a friendship. I shot this film in 2004 and only finished it in 2022. Somehow, I must have known it would get better when the "I" of its title could refer to both Tom and myself, and that the "years ago" would refer, in a vertiginous way, to the 90s, for Tom, as well as years the 2000s, for me, echoing today.
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- Executive Producer : Marion Naccache
- Director of photography : Marion Naccache
- Editor : Marion Naccache
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Cinema, Friendship, Dreams
- Production language : English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 44 min 36 seconds
- Production formats : Mini DV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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