Cultural icons from Patti Smith and Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg and Arthur Miller once roamed its corridors – but what of the artists still living there? A new film checks in with the refuseniks holding out against gentrification
young Patti Smith playfully leans over a rooftop wall, her raven-black hair tangling with the wind as she points towards the stiletto nib of the Empire State Building in the distance. “Dylan Thomas used to hang out on this very roof!” says the singer. “I’m sure he threw up one too many rums.” She laughs, then turns to face the camera. “I’ve always wanted to be where the big guys were, you know?”a film about the famous New York landmark.
And they did, with a Bolex camera and 16mm film: not the stories we already know but the ones we are yet to encounter, the beatniks who are “still dreaming of their idolised lives” as Van Elmbt puts it. “The concept of the film is that the Chelsea exists much more in the minds of those who invented it,” she explains. This means windswept characters such as conceptual artist and oldest resident, who at the time of filming was still exhibiting photography in her 90s.
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