Mission to Mongo (1977)

First I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza Second I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifactswhich could be schematized as EastWest socialismcapitalism propagandaentertainment as well as imagesoundand see how they reverberated In other words I wanted to make an essay out of things as well as a communist musical But the question arosewhat was the ideology of such film play Is MISSION TO MONGO aestheticized politics or political art J H