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Dream City

1983 · 5 min

A jagged, collage-like five minutes that feels like channel-surfing through performance art, music and cityscape into a restless political mood.

Overview
Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • politics
  • art
  • media
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • found footage
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour4
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight5

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Ulysses Jenkins
Written by
Ulysses Jenkins
Starring
George Abe, Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins, Jolene Lambastida, Louis Lunetta, Jimmy Mack, Linda Mason, Nobuko Miyamoto
Runtime
5 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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