One Mile Film (5,280 feet of 35 mm film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line
walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors
walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on
by baby stroller and
trash can wheels and was traced
by art students —
people wrote messages on the film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the film emulsion lines drawn down much of the filmstrip
by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the
walk way surfaces of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the film; filmed images shot
by Peter West — filmed Parkour performances
by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops
by Deb Berman and Jwest — film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line
by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced
by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation