Documentary of my neighborhood of three years. The lamp at the end of the alley between Molinari Delicatessen and Rossi Market (view from Roma) as christological numen mediating between the Above and the Below. Above: the stairs behind my "illegal" at 1735B Stockton. Moving out. Columbus Day Parade: serpent. Below: the hills as Nestle's Crunch.

"NORTH BEACH is a beautiful film. The human race should stick around to enjoy it. It's all cinema, all experience. No 'problems,' art in-jokes, other fashionable bluffing. Hills composes, orchestrates. The film's a concentrate of rhythmic invention, solid work, shapely; gorgeous." - Ken Jacobs