The Dancing Soul of the Walking People (1980)

Shot at Coney Island New Yorks legendary amusement park over two years from 19741976 this beautiful landmark of American experimental film languished in semiobscurity for three decades after its 1980 debut Restoration was a complex process involving algorithmic computer programming deployed to synchronise sound with images originally recorded on monochrome Super 8mm film at the unusually slow rate of 18 frames per second The result is cinema as a miraculous timetravel machine a citypoem which transports us to hidden corners that only a true ConeyIslander would know a native like writer director producer and editor Paula Gladstone She also arranged the soundtrack featuring music that ranges from Duke Ellington to the Drifters under the boardwalk down by sea and most stirringly LaBelle