Films in the screening:

MONGOLOID – 1978 – 4 min – 16 mm – Music: Devo
VALSE TRISTE – 1978 – 5 min – 16 mm – Music: Jean Sibelius
MEA CULPA – 1981 – 5 min – 16 mm – Music: Brian Eno, David Byrne
AMERICA IS WAITING – 1981 – 4 min – 16 mm – Music: Brian Eno, DavidByrne
CROSSROADS – 1976 – 36 min – 35 mm – Music: Terry Riley, Patrick Gleeson
EASTER MORNING – 2008 – 10 min – digital video – Music: Terry Riley

Conner spent his childhood Saturday evenings listening to the series I Love a Mystery on the radio, and the theme song, composed by Jean Sibelius, is the basis of Conner’s VALSE TRISTE. MONGOLOID is a made-to-order music video for the band Devo. They call it “a documentary about a determined young man overcoming a mental defect and becoming a useful member of society”. The hysterical MEA CULPA is a collage, AMERICA IS WAITING even prophetic in the light of the events of September 2011. In CROSSROADS Conner reassembles footage of the hydrogen bomb testing on Bikini Atoll in 1946. EASTER MORNING became Conner’s testament and it remains his only film to have been screened at Cannes.

Text: Mika Taanila / Translation: Tapio Reinekoski

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• Director: Bruce Conner
• Country: Yhdysvallat
• Length: 64 min
• Age limit: S
• Format: 16 mm, except CROSSROADS 35 mm and EASTER MORNING digital video

Showtimes:

• Orion: Ke 28.1. at 18:30
• Orion: To 29.1. at 17:00