Central Park and its Provision

In Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary, Jonathan Kahana paraphrases Hannah Arendt as follows: ‘Public things do not just appear, in some quasi-natural event, but are the result and legacy human fabrication, work’. Through a detailed interpretation Frederick Wiseman’s Central Park (1990), this essay asks what it means for film to register document how fact provision can be made present meaningful such film. It brings together three distinct related critical ideas – commons, infrastructure everyday examine formal aesthetics by which depicts urban phenomena an immanent condition, rather something has deliberately actively been available public.