Mankind Is No Island

Directed by Jason van Genderen · 2008

Filmed on a mobile phone in the streets of New York and Sydney, words lifted from posters, displays and street signs are stitched together into a poem about homelessness and the people we walk past.

Shot on a mobile phone for next to nothing, this Tropfest winner builds a quietly devastating poem out of street signs.

Shot by cell-phone on the streets of New York and Sydney, Mankind is no Island stitches together words from posters, displays and street signs—to create a poem of breathtaking beauty and emotion.

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