Winner - Gold Jury Award, Best Documentary Feature, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 1999

Revived by Josh Safdie (Good Time, Uncut Gems), revisit this 1999 documentary celebrating what was once the wild locus of human activity in New York City.

Shot over six years in the mid-nineties by legendary photographer Richard Sandler, The God of Times Square is a portrait of the ‘Crossroads of the World’ told through the words of its denizens, particularly the various street preachers that populated every corner.

Supporting the film's re-release, Safdie says: “Once upon a time, town squares were comment sections, where people brave enough to shout their opinions did it face to face. There is no stronger belief than one’s faith, and what used to be Times Square was a town square on steroids. As the 20th century came to an end, we entered the corporatized Y2K age. Spirituality seemed an essential grounding force, something to unify us. But whose God is supreme? What is God? What is God’s place in the digital age?”

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