Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

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Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1969)

Directed by Jonas Mekas

· 4m

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ brings an outsider’s perspective to bear on the US war, and discusses with ironic perplexity if it might not be possible to kill off the Viet Cong more cheaply. For, whilst white students in the US primarily took issue with the war in South-eastern Asia, African-Americans remained predominantly concerned with their own situation. For them, daily discrimination at home and the Vietnam War were simply two faces of the same racist coin

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Cast

Crew

Director
Jonas Mekas

Details

Release date
1969-01-01
Runtime
4m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America