America Is Waiting

USA 1982, 16mm, b&w, sound, 3:30 min

realized by:

Bruce Conner

keywords:

found-footage
politics

cast&crew:

music:

David Byrne, Brian Eno

available copies:

Canyon Cinema Inc.:

available for rent & sale

16mm rent & sale / VHS sale.

synopsis: Canyon Cinema catalog 1992

"The lyrics of AMERICA IS WAITING: 'Well now, you can't blame the
people -- blame the government! Take it in again! Again! Again!
America is waiting for a message of some kind or another,' cued
Conner for a strongly structured and richly varied piece which
examines ideas of loyalty, power, patriotism and paranoia.

"Like most of Bruce Conner's films, repeated viewings yield
deeper layers of successive structures. AMERICA IS WAITING is
strongly composed of interlocking visual connections, emblematic
content and a resonating ambiguity of the human condition within
the constructs with which we confound ourselves." --Anthony
Reveaux, monograph on Bruce Conner published by Film in the Cities

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