Trailer for the essay film, March 28, 1977 by Maureen Jolie Anderson. The film switches between the 1977 Oscars and the political context of Rhodesia
2018, this film switches between the 1977 Oscars and the political context of Rhodesia
1 year, 80 films, 27 min
a collage of 80 low budget fiction films from 1977, the year of the filmmaker's birth
Utilizing a short science-fiction story allegedly written by Vladislav Surkov, the on again, off again political advisor to Vladimir Putin, the video situates this contemporary global Russian tale about a future war in the context of an American past in the NYC blackout of 1977.
This video is a working of Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "The Secret Miracle," utilizing a film of the first US test of the Nazi V2 rocket, a photo from 1977 of my father, an ex-military contractor employee during the Cold War, and a cut up of a radio broadcast by conspiracy theorist, Mae Brussel, from August 15, 1977.
Selections from the Observing Reason section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit show up unexpectedly in New York tabloid stories concerning the Son of Sam murders in 1977.
A woman's fever dream of a young man's action-packed adventure--after the divorce of his parents--landing in a forest where people who can't communicate with each other are watched over by Aryan Nation glitterati alien biologists...it can only end in rebellion and murder!