Mass, or Monument for a Capitalist Society

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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Duration:

14 minutes

Year:

1976

Director:

Åsa Sjöström

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Company:

British Film Institute Production Board

Cast:

Crew:

Director

Camera Operator

Director of Photography

Camera Operator