First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts–which could be schematized as East/West, socialism/capitalism, propaganda/entertainment, as well as image/sound–and see how they reverberated. In other words, I wanted to make an essay out of things, as well as a communist musical. But the question arose–what was the ideology of such film play? Is MISSION TO MONGO aestheticized politics or political art? –J. H.
J. Hoberman
Director
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Room 23761%
Stop Making Sense83%
Jodorowsky's Dune78%
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One68%
Unthinkable68%
They Live73%
Koyaanisqatsi79%
Side by Side72%
Stardust Memories69%
Report61%
Nowhere68%
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology73%
Some Kind of Wonderful68%
The Moment62%
How High63%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Who Dares Wins63%
The Doors71%
