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Mission to Mongo (1977)
Directed by J. Hoberman
· 3m
First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts–which could be schematized as East/West, socialism/capitalism, propaganda/entertainment, as well as image/sound–and see how they reverberated. In other words, I wanted to make an essay out of things, as well as a communist musical. But the question arose–what was the ideology of such film play? Is MISSION TO MONGO aestheticized politics or political art? –J. H.
Crew
- Director
- J. Hoberman
Details
- Release date
- 1977-01-01
- Runtime
- 3m
- Original language
- EN