The Revolution

The Revolution is a film of appropriation…that is, of politics. It seizes, then installs what it claims. All its characters (Jim Jones, Galileo Galilei, Patti Hurst, Mao, Joseph McCarthy, Joan of Arc, Bertoldt Brecht, Rosa Luxemburg, et. al.) are familiar with the ’cause’ and its theatre. They form and are formed by the image of the revolutionary. Together they describe the aggregate fiction of history, drama, mythos, aggravated fantasy, and the five o’clock news. It is what we become after the pieces are re-puzzled and the heroics fade. It concerns what happens when the fictions of revolution settle into reality. – M.H.