America is Waiting

The lyrics of America Is Waiting : Well now, you can t blame the people - blame the government! Take it in again! Again! Again! America is waiting for a message of some kind or another, cued Conner for a strongly structured and richly varied piece which examines ideas of loyalty, power, patriotism and paranoia. Like most of Bruce Conner s films, repeated viewings yield deeper layers of successive structures. AMERICA IS WAITING is strongly composed of interlocking visual connections, emblematic content and a resonating ambiguity of the human condition within the constructs with which we confound ourselves. --Anthony Reveaux, monograph on Bruce Conner published by Film in the Cities.