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 taken from intimate correspondence between the Irish writer James Joyce and his fiancé Nora. The fragmentary text is pronounced by a computer-generated male voice.
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… -
Muette
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… -
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
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam PAL
