Identities examines the importance of silences in communication; those moments when a person is formulating and remembering what they are about to say. The silence of the subject also forces us to reevaluate the maxim ‘Silence = Death’. Silence as an aesthetic imperative is contrasted with silence as a social and political problem. Identities is ultimately the remembering of one person by another. Karl Soehnlein (The Advocate) refers to a ‘riveting, wordless interview with a person with AIDS, made up entirely of facial expressions and gestures’.
