Title: Mutiny
Authors: Canyon Cinema,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Women.; Lesbians; Women dancers; Street entertainers; United States Economic conditions.; United States Social conditions.
Abstract: Abigail Child's experimental film breaks up societal norms by chopping images and speech into short segments that entice us, but simultaneously challenge our most cherished ideas about how we live. "This movie is a new kind of classic, it has invented once and for all the machine-gun sound of explosives and composed sentences with speeded-up speech and wild singing, laughter, hardly at all understandable, with violins screeching like falling bombs and a Hispanic grind dance. There are tender closeups in interviews with women, and marvelous documents of dancers, street performers, all races and styles. These are brave and straight-talking people; this is a feminist film, and it is important. All the sound makes a talky song of many voices." Anne Robertson