Dark Days
Dark days is a sensitive and soulful portrait of a homeless community living in the underground train tunnels of New York in the 1990s.
Director Marc Singer creates a sympathetic portrait of this underground population, asking them to share their everyday stories of life below ground - finding food, caring for pets, socialising - and in doing so reveals that their daily grind is not dissimilar to ours, allowing viewers to confront poverty on an individual level.
Shot on black and white film, with a crew comprised of the inhabitants of the tunnels and accompanied by musical score from the legendary DJ Shadow, Dark Days endures as one of the defining films of life lived in the margins.
Dark Days premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival where it went on to win the Audience, Cinematography and Freedom Of Expression Awards in the Documentary Category (it remains the only documentary film ever to win three awards at the festival).
Director Marc Singer
Dark Days is relased 24th January.