Jy-Ah Min in Person

Sprinkled with pop references and constituted like a highbrow comic book, Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary 1966 opus Masculin féminin was, for Godard, about “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Those children, or grandchildren, have now remixed Godard's revolution. Lifting the aggressive style of Masculin féminin-the brash tags on screen, the disarming direct address, the jarring sonic cuts, as well as short excerpts from the ur-text itself-M/F Remix repurposes this Godardian inquiry for a new generation. The year is 2004 and war rages abroad. Ensconced in their slogan-strewn digs, “revolution” emblazoned serially like a decorative mural, Mimi and Philip toy with romance while history takes place elsewhere. A young Korean American, director Min places her generation in a cultural milieu where everything from sexuality to politics has been monetized. Yet the act of remixing, of bringing the past forward as a source of sustenance, recuperates the possibilities for engagement. M/F Remix should be in heavy rotation.