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Philip Ashforth Coppola has devoted all his free time in the last thirty years to catag and archiving every station in the New York City subway system. Using his own resources, this humble New Jersey printing press operator has self-financed a multi-volume "study" of his true ion: the rich, even rapturous design-work found within New York's underworld, conceived and constructed at a more adventurous time in the city's public-building history, and today forming the basis of unlikely - and often unnoticed - cathedrals of mosaic, faïence, terra cotta, tile, and steel. The film is a profile of Philip and his extreme obsession of the design and decoration of New York's 496 subway stations. Filmed over a course of four years, One Track Mind is a portrait of a man consumed by a singular ion. The documentary, shot almost entirely in the subway system in post-9/11 New York, is also a loving portrait of a city's artistic idiosyncrasies