Dream City (1983)

Name: Dream City
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1983-01-01
Duration: 5 min
Cast: George Abe, Maren Hassinger, Ulysses Jenkins, Jolene Lambastida, Louis Lunetta

Released 1 January 1983
Runtime 0h 5m
Director Ulysses Jenkins
Genres Documentary

Synopsis

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and Senga Nengudi. A discordant, absurdist, and poetic montage, the video weaves together jazz and punk shows, recitations by Jenkins, and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagan's presidency.