Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
He Saw Her Burning (1983)
Directed by Joan Jonas
· 20m
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.
Cast
Y Sa Lo
Crew
- Director
- Joan Jonas
- Editor
- Egon Bunne
Details
- Release date
- 1983-01-01
- Runtime
- 20m
- Original language
- EN