(Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society)

Content: Mass was made during Sjöström’s years at the film department of the Royal College of Art, in cooperation with the London Filmmaker’s Co-op. Random or staged shots of people and settings in urban London are arranged and abstracted, double-exposed and solarized. The result is a dense texture filled with layers and associative dimensions. Mass is a film attempting to convey, by strictly filmic means, the cooped-up feeling of the individual in the grey mass of the city. The absurd concrete city landscape is visualized through the unspoilt and naked eye of the camera in a concentrated mosaic of images and sound.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Runtime:

14 minutes

Year:

1976

Directors:

Åsa Sjöström

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Production companies:

British Film Institute Production Board

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

Camera Operator

Camera Operator