Dream City

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

1983

5min

Documentary

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Overview

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.