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The controversial documentary The NYU Suicides is being shipped overseas to places where it may seem a bit less controversial, it's also an Official Selection of the New York International Independent Film Festival. There will be a limited screening of the film in NYC this week as well, the first since it first premiered late this summer.
The doc explores the year in which six NYU students leaped from Manhattan rooftops to their untimely deaths. The director of the film, Adario Strange (founder of the blog marsmagazine.com), explained that the series of suicides "serve as symbols for an issue that needs to be dealt with more aggressively." Strange also investigates the history of Bobst Library and Greenwich Village in this film, the suicides actually prompted the glass safety barriers that are now in Bobst. They also drew out the darker side of comedy on NewYorkish, who wrote an etiquitte piece on suicide in New York after the string of suicides occurred that year.
NYU Suicides plays this Wednesday November 16th @ the Village East Cinemas [181 2nd Avenue (at 12th Street)] // 8pm
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everytime I'm reminded of those suicides I'm reminded of this chorus:
teenage suicide
(don't do it)
teenage suicide
(she blew it!)
teenage suicide
(don't do it)
teenage suicide.
is that wrong?
I was thinking of "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult.
Instead of putting up barriers to suicide, we should encourage it. It isn't as though we have a dangerous shortage of whiny teenagers.
Good to see that people are amused at the death of others.
boo f()cking hoo. rich spoiled teenagers at NYU have such horrible lives. i giggle every time I walk into the Bobst Library ... but look up first.
"f()cking" means "fucking," right? I giggle every time people censor themselves unnecessarily here!
What ever happened to New Yorkish anyway?