Our City Dreams

Filmed over the course of two years, “Our City Dreams” is a journey through the lives and the places of five women: Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero. These five artists speak about and expose theirselves while they are creating artworks, managing an exhibition, or visiting places linked to their art or life, New York City, El Cairo, Thailand, Paris, Venice. Their ideas, sensibilities, experiences emerge in the trustful relationship they have with the director, but also with the sixth character of the film, New York City. As the title suggests, the film is a vivid portrait of the real and imaginative relations between these women and the city, but, at the same time, a dream of the city itself. From different points of view, the artists unveil how New York City becomes a place not for stopping but for amplifying their art, giving them strenght and new challenges.