He Saw Her Burning (1983)

ALL 01/01/1983 (en) 20 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1983
  • Production
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  • Original title
    He Saw Her Burning
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

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.

  1. Joan Jonas

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Egon Bunne

    Editor

  4. Producer



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He Saw Her Burning (1983) 20 Min

ALL 01/01/1983 (en)
  • Release 01/01/1983
  • Production
  • Original title He Saw Her Burning
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Joan Jonas

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Egon Bunne

    Editor

  4. Producer