The genre of film-cipher (invented by the documentary classic Chris Marker) is represented by Perm story with our working title "The Quest". The sequence of seemingly random episodes is gradually perceived as a sequence of signs encrypting the message: no kidding, in essence, it's a thriller which starts from peering into the cat's eyes. Then we meet a stern gentleman with a cigarette nodding to us; a daring kid cuts a piece of plywood on his dashing head; close-ups of unknown faces… All for good reason.
Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence. One day after dinner when Hu was escorting Sun home, he received from a child on the street a box containing a mirror and two silver coins engraved with dragons.
In the fall of 1967, intermedia artists Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck collaborated with Bengt Modin, video engineer of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in Stockholm, to produce an experimental program called Monument.
A wild, freewheeling spoof on motorcycle gangs in which tough-looking cyclists, who roam the highways on invisible bikes leaving visible tire tracks, pick up a girl hitchhiker encounter another gang.
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
