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NYC's Real Summer Of Hell Captured In 3 Minute Cinematic Video
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Jen Carlson
Published Aug 24, 2017
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Have the past few months felt like a Sisyphean trip through a rotating door that only pushes you out into protests, broken subway commutes, and all-too-brief beach escapes that are never really enjoyed? What if the real Summer of Hell isn't train problems, but just life as we know it in 2017? Filmmaker Colby Moore has captured the post-election NYC summer in a new 3-minute short titled Another Hundred Days. Click play and turn it up—that soundtrack is a cover of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, which seems about right.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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