Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Yoni Brook and Pacho Velez's Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt presents New York City in a single-shot (from above) microcosm as an everyman struggles to enter the subway, a droll take on human-versus-machine.
Pacho Velez
Director
Yoni Brook
Director
Also Directed by Pacho Velez
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