Life on a String is a meditation on New York City as inspired by five songs written and performed by Laurie Anderson merged into one suite, creating its own thematic narrative. The film mixes impressionistic, absurdist and ghost-like imagery of the city and its people, with Anderson herself as both the observer and the observed. Illuminating the tension between the past and the present, Life on a String merges Super 8mm film and Digital Video to create a distinct visual form. Completed in the summer of 2001, it has unexpectedly become a window into the old world, on the verge of a new one.