Here at the Waters Edge (1961)

Leo Hurwitzs film Here At The Waters Edge features the 1960 New York Citys waterfront Made with photographer Charles Pratt the film is a cinematic poem to the people who work on the water Pratt who largely financed the film made it possible for Leo to use his vision as an artist and filmmaker while the blacklist still overshadowed his life and ability to work in other areas Here At The Waters Edge a film without narration draws our attention to the oftenneglected life in on and around water as well as bringing into view what workers on the water give us Leo in his own work was always concerned with seeing what is happening in spaces in the world where others fail to look