Gramophone

A young black woman, dressed in 1940s fashion, enjoys the flowers of a city garden. Sudden siren wailing drives the woman out of the garden, down into the alleys of an old town. She searches in vain for cover: all the front doors are locked, no other people far and wide. Only a voice from a distant loudspeaker warns of an ABC air raid. The woman finds the sound source, which turns out to be a gramophone, on whose record sirens and warning messages are played. The gramophone is operated by a monkey-like creature, which shortly afterwards steps into the scene and stops the spinning shellac record. In this short film 'Gramophone', Pete Berger leads us through a surrealistic world in which the unconscious merges with the real.