NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell

Overview

Kicking off this year is the new UR{BNE} festival. Organized by the crème de la crème of the river cities’ creative types, its aim is to bring something different, culturally unique, and exciting to Brisbane’s public spaces.

As part of the festival's initiative, a weekly film screening will be held at the State Library. Showing this Sunday is the documentary entitled NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell. Chances are, if you're a fan of content such as rock, punk, hip hop, street art, politics or suburban crime, this film will surely not disappoint. It documents the year the New York underground reached the mainstream, the year the forgotten and downtrodden became the people of importance, the year New York showcased its renaissance.

Set during a period when the city was at one of its lowest ebbs financially, politically and socially, NY77 narrates how a a new cultural zeitgeist emerged from the ashes of a crumbling metropolis. Featuring interviews with luminaries and icons of their field, coupled with ground-breaking animation and never before seen footage of its time, this movie will leave you yearning to have been there, to have been a part of something special, wishing you could've been a New Yorker in the '70s.