{"id":1117,"date":"2002-11-15T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:00:58","slug":"peggy-and-fred-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2002\/11\/15\/peggy-and-fred-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggy and Fred in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL<br \/>\nFriday 15 November 2002, at 4pm<br \/>\nLondon National Film Theatre NFT1<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred in Hell, USA, 2002, 100 min<br \/>\n<\/b>Begun in 1984, <i>Peggy and Fred in Hell<\/i> originally existed as an open-ended sequence of episodes continually shown as works-in-progress. Leslie Thornton has now assembled this definitive feature-length videofilm; an unsettling glimpse into a strangely twisted world which is not so unlike our own. Peggy and Fred, two distinctly American children brought up on a diet of movies, television and junk food, permeate the film with a string of disconcerting dramatic or improvised vignettes, punctuated by carefully arranged found footage and re-appropriated (often instantly recognisable) soundtracks. This film is utterly peculiar, occasionally displaying whiffs of Jack Smith, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Dogme and Science Fiction while retaining its own unique mystery and allure. As the two young protagonists wander though their surreal, post-apocalyptic world, nature and decay oppose technology in a cathartic manifestation of fractured modern life. It\u2019s as though they were the only two people left alone on the planet, raising themselves in bewildered naivet\u00e9; free and spontaneous. Life can be strange: \u2018Have a nice day alone\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><i>Also Screening: Saturday 16 November 2002, at 11pm, London NFT1<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2002","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}