Manfred Kirchheimer, a filmmaker who was draw to stickball, jazz, subway graffiti, gargoyles of old buildings, and the memories of aging immigrants, and who earned a reputation as a master of nonfiction cinema, died on July 16 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 93.

Mr. Kirchheimer often wrote, produced, directed, photographed and edited his movies. He got funding from nonprofit sources, and he earned a living as a freelance film editor and a film professor at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan from the mid-1970s until the mid-2010s.

From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Kirchheimer released four new movies that included footage he had shot more than half a century ago. The films unearthed scenes of old men reading newspapers and youngsters playing jacks with soda caps — urban life happening on sidewalks. In a review of one of the movies, Ben Kenigsberg, film critic for The New York Times, labeled Mr. Kirchheimer a “city symphonist.”