Short film based on the 1856 poem by Walt Whitman inspired by the Visible Poetry Project (https://www.visiblepoetryproject.com/#the-projecty).
"I'm a New Yorker born and raised...This connection, this odd firing of neurons, is probably what made me latch onto the poem in the first place, out of all the poems in Leaves of Grass' forbidding contents page. What kept me there, though, was the way I found myself so surprised to identify with it. Every working day for eight years, I would go into Manhattan for school, traveling by subway from Queens...It seemed to me that even though it was undertaken by boat a hundred and fifty years ago, Whitman's own daily commute into Manhattan was not so different from mine...The poem frequently mentions the idea that Whitman is thinking of future commutes, not only present commutes, as he crosses the river – as he puts it, 'you, who will cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me[…]than you suppose.' This line, in fact, is what set off my thinking about how I’d approach a visual poem."