A fragment from Autodafé by Elias Canetti is read out without sound, only a mouth, filmed in close-up, appears on-screen. The sequence is repeated several times, re-editing the paragraph at each time to make up other sentences, and then it is scrambled again in silence, so that nothing remains of the original fragment.
Also in this combined programme
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Wandering Words
The text that word by word fills the right side of the image is derived from chapter 10 ‘Wandering Rocks’ of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The… -
Grass A/B
A play with a double voice over. The image, simple green foliage, hardly supplies us with any information. Grass A/B is an investigation into how… -
Pa tak
‘Tape my head and mike my brain.’ A tribute to three writers and their relationship with sound recording devices: Rilke and the phonograph, William S.… -
Me+
A single white cross on a blank black surface. The slow movements of this cross seem to delineate some figure. But it is the off-screen… -
The Witch
In The Witch a little boy abandons an apartment and, as soon as he has gone, the plants begin to communicate with each other by… -
Wandering Love
A woman sits on rocks by the waterside; she is seen from the back, smoking a cigarette. Like a holiday picture. Below, words appear on-screen… -
The Lover’s Bed
Video piece based on the novel by Marguerite Duras L’amant de la Chine de nord. The artist collected quotes from the book and developed a… -
Legal Errorist
In the limelight of an empty stage stands a woman, transfixed, offering herself in refusal like a comic-book character. ‘No, I will not sing a… -
Shouting Match
The tone of the work is reminiscent of early video art: raw expression. The louder they shout, the more they are in the picture; the…
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 2'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
