21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Out of Competition (Detours)
Revolution V: Foreign City Meditations on Revolution
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 32'
Foreing City studies New York as a
place of immigration and displacement. It is a meditation on revolution of the
urban space. Images with an abstract black and white and actual sounds come in
and out of sink, creating a magical foreign landscape. The reconstruction of New
York through an imaginary city plan, built on sensation. The film has a
timeless, anonymous qualit` until it is given the voice of artist and jazz
musician Marion Brown" (R. Fenz).
Biography
film director
Robert Fenz
Robert Fenz studied filmmaking with Peter Hutton and trumpet, improvisation and jazz theory with creative musician Wadada Leo Smith. He has traveled to Brazil, Cuba, Poland, Turkey and in the US to make his films. Currently lives in Boston and since 1997, he has been working on the series Meditations on Revolution: Part I: Lonely Planet (1997), Part II: The Space in Between (1997), Part III: Soledad (2001), Part IV: Greenville, MS (2001) and Part V: Foreign City (2003).
FILMOGRAFIA
Duet for Trumpet and Camera (cm, 1992), Passage (cm, 1993), Vertical Air (cm, 1996), Meditations on Revolution Part I: Lonely Planet (cm, 1997), Meditations on Revolution Part II: The Space In Between (cm, 1997), Revolution V: Foreign City Meditations On Revolution (mm, 2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director: Robert
Fenz