Cruel Rhythm

Overview

Shot during the opening stages of the First Gulf War, Kerr's ""Cruel Rhythm"" revisits the American desert for a cinematic tone poem in the vein of 'The Last Days of Contrition' A canopy of sound bites of media coverage on the build-up toward the war is juxtaposed with the alienness of windmills in the desert, and a startling sequence of drifting faces of a crowd coming towards the camera in slow motion. A thought-provoking piece on media's construction of societal paranoia ""Cruel Rhythm"" is an attempt to make a public, shared feeling intimate, or conversely, to make a subjective feeling of floating anxiety and dread into a shared representation."" Unsettlingly, its ambiance is as poignant today as ever.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1991

Original language

English

Director

Richard Kerr

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0202841