Potamkin

In 1933 at age 33 Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation at a time when he was one of the worlds most respected film critics In his writings he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics This filmbiography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written an impression of erupting consciousness