| “In HOUSE OF UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES (1984), Marx paints a portrait of his father, Werner Marx, whom he never got a chance to know. The elder Marx, a German Jewish refugee before World War II and a U.S. Navy sailor during it, was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the mid-‘50s and died when the filmmaker was 9. Using home movies, government documents and interviews with his mother, Marx attempts to fill in the silences created in HUAC’s aftermath. In the mid-‘80s, Marx picks up echoes of that silence in Communist China. In DREAMS FROM CHINA (1989), Marx explores the cityscapes of Tianjin and Beijing in the months before the government’s renewed fight against “cultural pollution.” Good friends stop speaking to Marx – a foreigner, and worse yet, a foreigner with a camera.“ |
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- Paul Malcolm, LA WEEKLY |
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