Another instalment in the never-ending saga of Peggy and Fred in Hell, a project that Thornton continues to elaborate upon since more than a decade. In this ‘prequel’, she gives away the most explicitly historical and, at the same time, the most personal contextualisation of the whole apocalyptic project: America’s construction of the atom bomb.
Also in this combined programme
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Trigger
Part soft-core pornography, part political allegory and part Modernist play with media, Trigger is a sermon about masculinity, sex, surveillance and violence. A study of… -
The Light
From one lone street lamp to the brightest light ever made, The Light culminates as a metropolis beacon reaches skyward. Ultimately, the attempt to pierce… -
Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord?
Alice, unhappy with her prim, proper existence in Victorian England, travels through time into an age that metaphorically resembles our own. There, she encounters malicious,… -
Vietnam Romance
Vietnam Romance is entirely made from sources that only exist on the computer: games, graphics and music. This remix of the `familiar’ Vietnam war with…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 8'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL