I found the video "Lost Book Found" by Jem Cohen to be a very interesting portrayal of what the city streets in New York are really like. After searching the web I found that after using only a 16mm camera, Cohen created a video based on a notebook that was filled with all kinds of listings of places, objects, and incidents. Cohen said that the notebook suggests that there is a hidden city with unconsidered geography. In an unusual way, it seems like the creator of this notebook may have been using it as an escape.
"Its beauty is quite ineffable. It's the sort of visual experience that transforms everything seen by the viewer for several hours afterward. . . What it actually does is capture the subconscious of the city itself, the dream state of the whole past existing in simultaneous disarray."—Luc Sante, Low Life and Evidence
This quote from the website, describes how the notebook captures images in the cities dream state. This would directly relate to Borges's thoughts about the world being made up of dreams.
The website I used was http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?LOSTBOOKFO
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