Meditations on Revolution, part V: Foreign City
‘Foreign City’ part V is the final film in Fenz’s series ‘Meditations on Revolution. The film is dedicated to the director’s father who immigrated to the United States in 1953 and passed away in 1999. Foreign City studies New York as a place of immigration and displacement. It is a meditation on revolution of the urban space. It’s abstract black and white images and actual sounds, come in and out of sink, creating a magical foreign landscape. The reconstruction of NY through an imaginary city plan, built on sensation. The film has a timeless, anonymous quality until it is given the voice of artist and jazz musician Marion Brown. [M.M.]
Also in this combined programme
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Toccata
A house, a city in Italy; the traffic and movements of people become visible filmed in the present. But the images embrace a living and… -
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Paper Route
In a simple, sensitive and entertaining video film, Robert Frank accompanies his local newspaper delivery boy during his morning round one chilly wint -
Mekong
This song of desire investigates the overlapping sensations of intimacy and erotic desire in the Mekong delta. -
Elements
This film refers to the natural elements, that are variable and even capricious, but also to social elements.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 32'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
