Brooding Angels (1988)

From its fiery outset Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagans second term in office Born in 1945 Auder came of age during the 1960s a decade as tumultuous in France as it was in the United States The decade culminated in the studentworker strikes of May 1968 that shut down the city of Paris Auders value system was in many respects shaped by this antiauthoritarian milieu Its remnants are to be found in his preponderance with issues violence and conflict as they serve to question moral progress The soundtracks ominous melody is recycled from footage of cellist David Soyer that can be seen in A Portrait of Alice Neel