13 Fragments 3 Narratives from Life (1968)

A portrait of alienation is sketched out focusing on a young art student who passively but consciously rejects responsibility for the political storms swirling about her The epitome of bourgeois mentality she insists she is or at least will be an artist She says all she is responsible for is artthough she admits she cannot tell you what it is Beginning with TV images from Viet Nam being turned off the film ends with the 13th fragment TV images of Viet Nam being turned on again We are bracketed by history like it or not Jon Jost