He Saw Her Burning (1983)
He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an American soldier go berserk and drive a tank into a crowd. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The man and woman occupy separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Memory — elusive and ephemeral, personal and collective — is the catalyst for this complex work.
Director: Joan Jonas
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| Sound | Vera Bódy | Music |
| Directing | Joan Jonas | Director |
| Editing | Egon Bunne | Editor |
| Crew | Cynthia Beatt | Cinematography |
| Sound | Gábor Bódy | Music |
