USA 1983, Super8, col, sound, 19:32 min
- realized by:
- Joan Jonas
- cast&crew:
- camera:
- Cynthia Beatt
- editing:
- Egon Bunne (Llurex) , Joan Jonas
- music:
- The Residents, Gabor Body
- appearance:
- Y Sa Lo, Shawn Lawton
- available copies:
- Electronic Arts Intermix - EAI:
- Super8
- available for rent
- synopsis: Copyright Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. See the EAI Online Catalogue for further information about this artist and work
- "He Saw Her Burning", which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an American soldier go berserk and drive a tank into a crowd. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The man and woman occupy separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Memory - elusive and ephemeral, personal and collective - is the catalyst for this complex work.
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