Made in Chinatown

Jennings a prolific and consistently wonderful filmmaker excels at constructing nearperfect short films out of glimpses of fleeting ephemeral visual phenomena Made in Chinatown is a street film in which the human presence is represented only indirectly and in fragments either through its reflection in shop windows cars and other surfaces or through the shadows it casts There is nothing extraneous here nothing which upsets the films fragile delicate balance between what is physically substantial and the immaterial traces of that substantiality Nathaniel Dorsky