Dark Days

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Dark Days: going underground with New York's tunnel-dwellers

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Their residents were mostly men — runaways from abusive parents, divorcees, crack addicts. Grief and demons dogged them: Dee, a woman in her 50s, retreated into the darkness after an apartment fire killed her two children; Ralph was tormented by the knowledge that his five-year-old daughter had been raped and mutilated while he was serving a prison sentence.

Here, amid the smell, the rats and the poor sanitation, they had carved out another existence — some for decades. At first, Singer found the tunnels ghostly. There are stretches like no man's land. You'll get a cluster of 30 homes, then a stretch of nothing.

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Those areas are so dark, and the air is thicker and heavier. You feel like you're being followed.

Then they thought I was fucking crazy — you couldn't get any lower than this. Young, restless Americans have often taken to the road, or to hopping freight trains, in search of adventures, a whiff of otherness. But Singer's journey, vertical rather than horizontal, soon stopped being about finding an alternative world, and more about exploring the connections between overground and underground New York. It's like a representation of the city above, except the tunnels weren't segregated by race. It was more that if you were on drugs, or if you were a runaway kid, you'd hang around with people like you.

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By day, may of the tunnel-dwellers would pound the streets of Manhattan foraging for food or scavenging items such as gay porn magazines they could resell. In the evenings, they would descend into the tunnels and cook meals on hot plates, play with pets, and watch TV on second-hand sets powered by re-routed electricity. By that point, Singer had rigged up his own shelter and had joined the extended family of outcasts.

Now I was making a lot of friends and saw so much potential in everybody. One day, we were all sitting around a fire and laughing about some guy and a rat.

We thought it was hysterical. Someone said there should be a film made about us. So I said, 'Why not? Why don't we make a film, sell it, and the money will get everyone out of the tunnels? Dark Days , the resulting documentary which has just been rereleased, is extraordinary in many ways — not least for the fact that Singer had never previously even held a camera. Yet he manages to avoid pity or voyeurism when looking at these stygian settlers. He portrays the inhabitants as an embattled group, a collection of resilient and optimistic individuals who display camaraderie and gallows humour.

Not only that, the moody ambient soundtrack by DJ Shadow chimes superbly with the hip-hop gesturing and the tunnel walls, coated with spray-can art and graffiti that seems to echo cave drawings. In many ways, Dark Days was a collaborative endeavour. The tunnel-dwellers became a crew.

Some held lights and microphones, others drew on their professional pasts to tap electricity and construct fresh tracks for dolly shots. Much of the film's power comes from being shot in black and white, its chiaroscuric beauty making it the proletarian antithesis of Woody Allen's Manhattan. You don't know what you're doing and you'll screw it up.

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If you do it on black and white, though, it'll still look cool. Singer's loyalty to his friends meant he refused overtures from potential backers. On its eventual release in , Dark Days was widely praised and won three prizes at the Sundance film festival.

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