Downtown Calling: New York City 1977-85

I found out about the NYC documentary Downtown Calling on one of my recent blog discoveries - Stupefaction - and wanted to pass it along.

From the mid-70s to the early 80s, the turmoil of New York City spawned an incredbile number of scenes.  Poverty, crime, drugs, disease...it all coalesced into a pressure cooker of ideas, where everything affected everything else.  I really don't think we'll ever see an artistic explosion of this magnitude ever again...