Dream City (1983)

Ulysses Jenkins composed Dream City from documentation of a twentyfourhour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi A discordant absurdist and poetic montage the video weaves together jazz and punk shows recitations by Jenkins and shots of the Los Angeles skyline and oil wells to comment on power and nation in the early years of Ronald Reagans presidency