Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image Trailer (1991)
"Homage to John Heartfield"03 December 1991Factual26 mins
Zygosis is a radical and humorous electronic homage to Heartfield's methods via animation of archival material, contemporary interviews and footage shot in Berlin during the opening of the Wall and the upheavals in East Germany.
This short fiction film tells the story of a very unusual satellite named Zenon. Zenon is a product of the most up-to-date technology and so displays an unusual characteristic for a computer: he is conscious.
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance collaboration created by artist David Wojnarowicz and composer/musician Ben Neill in 1989.
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide.
