If Revolution Is a Sickness
↳ Diane Severin Nguyen
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US / PL 2021, 00:19:00
A militant K-pop opera set in Warsaw, artist Diane Severin Nguyen’s If Revolution Is a Sickness presents post-socialist theatrics enacted by a new generation whose influences span from Mao to Blackpink. Meshing revolutionary writings with collaboratively choreographed sequences featuring a young Vietnamese girl and a dance troupe of Polish teenagers, Nguyen’s film is a euphoric and paradoxical conflation of socialist and capitalist iconographies and post-Cold War diasporas. (New York Film Festival)
- Sektion Section: Film
- Programm Programme: Rhythms, Presents