These  two videos were created for the  One Minutes Foundation in Amsterdam.  Filmed  at the construction site  for the Kauffman Center for the  Performing Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie, in Kansas City, Mo. USA,  they were submitted as part of the City One Minutes project sponsored by the One Minutes Foundation. 

The idea for the project is to have 24 artists in each of 40 international cities film one minute of video, representative of one hour;  the composite reflects a portrait of that city in one 24 hour period.

The videos are entitled, “Broadway Boogie Woogie II”, after Mondrian,  and  “Two Men and a Hook”.

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is on Broadway Boulevard.
“Broadway Boogie Woogie II” reflects the fascination I find in the movement of materials at the construction site. There is a definite choreography in the cranes’ dance as their vast arms move through space in concert.  Carrying objects of immense weight through the sky and across the site they’re engaged in a kind of syncopated rhythm.  It is pure poetry to watch these  horizontal steel beams swing slowly through the air.

“Two Men and a Hook” seems to say everything about man and machines.