Wiseman's NYC: Model

Director: Frederick Wiseman

1981 / 129min / DCP

As part of a two-week citywide celebration, coordinated by UnionDocs, of the films in which the late Frederick Wiseman set his sights on New York City and its institutions, Metrograph presents Model, an unusually breezily paced work in which Wiseman “brilliantly distills both the excitement and the emptiness” [The New York Times] of Manhattan’s fashion industry, plunging us headlong into a world of runway divas, celebrity photographers, glossy magazines, hack commercial directors, and high-powered agents (the Zoli Agency coming in for especial attention)—a world where art and commerce are inseparably knotted together, and where the name of the game is manufacturing and merchandising fantasy.

Distributor: Zipporah Films

Introduction by Genevieve Yue, film scholar, programmer, and lead facilitator of Wiseman's New York, on Saturday, September 5th