Fiche Film
Cinéma/TV
© Courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive
COURT Métrage | 1977
Daydream Therapy

© Courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive
Pays concerné : États-Unis
Support : 16 mm
Durée : 8 minutes
Genre : drame
Type : fiction
Français
Daydream Therapy de Bernard Nicolas se déroule sur la musique envoutante de Nina Simone, intitulée « Pirate Jenny » et raconte comment un employé d’hôtel s’échappe du manque de considération par la force de son imagination.
Réalisateur, scénariste, Directeur photo, Monteur et Producteur : Bernard Nicolas
USA, 1977, 16mm numérisé, n/b & couleur, 8 min
Réalisateur, scénariste, Directeur photo, Monteur et Producteur : Bernard Nicolas
USA, 1977, 16mm numérisé, n/b & couleur, 8 min
English
Bernard Nicolas’ Daydream Therapy, set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of « Pirate Jenny » poetically envisions a hotel worker’s escape from workplace indignities through vivid fantasy.
Activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas’s Daydream Therapy 1980 is a fantasy of black resistance to everyday exploitation.
Structured in parallel to its striking soundtrack, the film escalates from Nina Simone’s restrained version of Pirate Jenny to the Afrocentric free-jazz of Arche Schepp’s Things Have Got to Change. The film is one of the key rediscoveries of the UCLA restoration project, a fantastic response to everyday oppression and a militant call to arms.
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor : Bernard Nicolas
USA, 1977, digital video, transferred from 16mm, b/w & colour, 8 min
Activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas’s Daydream Therapy 1980 is a fantasy of black resistance to everyday exploitation.
Structured in parallel to its striking soundtrack, the film escalates from Nina Simone’s restrained version of Pirate Jenny to the Afrocentric free-jazz of Arche Schepp’s Things Have Got to Change. The film is one of the key rediscoveries of the UCLA restoration project, a fantastic response to everyday oppression and a militant call to arms.
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor : Bernard Nicolas
USA, 1977, digital video, transferred from 16mm, b/w & colour, 8 min
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