Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1969

Runtime

0h 4m

User Score

53%

Original Title

Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Director

Jonas Mekas

Description

Jonas Mekas zoomed in from a completely different angle for his Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel. This fake interview with ‘Lapland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ brings an outsider’s perspective to bear on the US war, and discusses with ironic perplexity if it might not be possible to kill off the Viet Cong more cheaply. For, whilst white students in the US primarily took issue with the war in South-eastern Asia, African-Americans remained predominantly concerned with their own situation. For them, daily discrimination at home and the Vietnam War were simply two faces of the same racist coin