The Big Stick / An Old Reel

FILM

The Big Stick / An Old Reel
Saul Levine, 1973, US, 16mm, 11'

Levine spent six years reediting 8mm prints of some of Charlie Chaplin’s shorts which he juxtaposed with television images of an anti-war protest. A self-study in montage, narrative ascesis and the amazing power of caustic rhythms, it serves at the same time as a a subtle comment on the duality of society in North- America, torn between passivity and activism, privilege and exclusion.