The Medusa Raft 1980
Story about a group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.
Story about a group of eccentric Dadaist artists in a small Serbian town in the 1920s.
Indifferent landscapes, refracting light, some lonely bird and the window to the sebum-laden living room made of patterned wallpaper and trivialities. Cut. Tenacious sequences inflate moments to cliff-hangers and shatter their tremulous spectatorship. Thundering leitmotifs – in constant intoxication by German disinterest – with no backrest or lederhosen. Black-red-gold at full mast, the cinema is dead.
The Pink Umbrella Man has a cabin possessed when Bob Booze and his friends are driving up. Meanwhile detectivesMr. Dick and Mr. Head put themselves on the task of solving the mystery. 31 minutes of bugs, guts, breeze, pizza, subways, hats and other stuff.
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Connecting city and country, south and north, summer and winter, peasant women and worker women / Emancipation of women in the USSR