Meditations on Revolution, Part V.: Foreign City

16mm. B&W

Filmed over seven years, the chapters of Meditations on Revolution explore the basic theme of revolution in its purest definition: the radical transformation of a subject from one state to another, and the various forms that transformation can take. The final film in the series is the most unique in form and content. Dedicated to (and heavily influenced in tone by the death of) the filmmaker's father, this moody urban piece surveys an expressionistic New York City at dusk and night. At the film's center is aged artist-musician Marion Brown whose proud, fatigued monologue fuses with haunting imagery of an alienating landscape.