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Mayhem

Mayhem

198717m

Status

Released

Release

1987

Runtime

17m

Storyline

In 1983, filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times, a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she had produced for WNET/PBS back in 1975. That footage would then be integrated into work of a drastically different kind: The film was called Mutiny which, by its very name, signaled her abandonment of the humanist documentary tradition to which Between Times belonged, to become, in her words, “a prismatic rhythmic pinwheel” born of the artistic and political necessity to radically rethink form. Mutiny, in turn, stood as one of the most densely woven in a series of bold experiments that came to be known as Is This What You Were Born For?

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Status
Released
Runtime
17m
Mar 10, 1987
Languages
English
Production Countries
United States of America

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3 Cast Members

Is This What You Were Born For?
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Is This What You Were Born For?