Journeys From Berlin (Rainer, 1971): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This film is part of the Yvonne Rainer retrospective at the ICA. Full details here.
ICA introduction:
Yvonne Rainer’s fourth feature, inspired by her experiences living in West
Berlin in 1976 and ’77, when the activities of right-wing terrorists
were at their height, offers an audacious, collage-like meditation on
state power, repression, violence and revolution. Vaulting between aerial images of
British landscapes, intertitles, fragments of Rainer’s teenage diary and
one unseen couple’s debate (voiced by Amy Taubin and Vito Acconci) over
the demise of the RAF, the film is illuminated by a lead performance
from the late art and film critic Annette Michelson as a patient
undergoing psychoanalysis, whose every gesture was choreographed
elaborately by Rainer over a nine-month period. This is the UK Premiere of the 4K restoration of the work.
Chicago Reader review:
‘Journeys From Berlin significantly furthers the political implications of (Rainer's)
previous work while continuing the development of formal strategies that
challenge audience expectation... and slyly subvert the attachment to
character identification. In her willingness to enter into the zone of
ambiguity and to dare to fix meanings within its delicate balance of
style, Rainer has made... an indicator of a new development that could
rescue avant-garde film from its current paralysis.'
B Ruby Rich
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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