Mission to Mongo (movie)

Name: Mission to Mongo
Director: J. Hoberman
Released: 1977-0-1

Production country: US
Producer: J. Hoberman
Release date: 1/1/1977
Run time: 3 min.

Movie description

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.