He Saw Her Burning
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. 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.
- Runtime
- 20m
- Released
- 1983
Details
Release year: 1983
Storyline
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. 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.