Remembrance of Things Fast

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.