Remembrance of Things Fast

  • 60'
  • United Kingdom
  • 1993
overloads the viewer with an amalgam of colours and forms, texts and quotes, meanings and visual techniques. It is a high-speed, hybrid, layered, intertextual indictment of a hypocritical ! English ! society. The well-known Jarman actress Tilda Swinton speaks a number of biting monologues about the coarseness and alienation of present-day society. Transvestites and other gender-benders get a chance to tell their story and complain, there is laughing and crying. The film's soundtrack is just as variegated and layered as the pictures, bombarding the viewer like machine-gun fire. The viewer is treated to all kinds of views on people as these manifest themselves in the media. The film is like a parody, then serious and dances with concepts like image, language and sensuality.
  • 60'
  • United Kingdom
  • 1993
Director
John Maybury
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 1995
Length
60'
Medium
16mm
Language
English
Producers
Arts Council of England, Miramax Films, Chiara Menage, John Maybury
Sales
Lime Light
Cast
Tilda Swinton, Lola, Chiara Menage
Director
John Maybury
Country of production
United Kingdom
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 1995
Length
60'
Medium
16mm
Language
English
Producers
Arts Council of England, Miramax Films, Chiara Menage, John Maybury
Sales
Lime Light
Cast
Tilda Swinton, Lola, Chiara Menage