| Sinopsis: |
Talker is a video-book, a reworking of an unpublished artistÂ’s book (with Andrew Bick). The public voice of Talker champions "truth" and is always praying for those he meets. His refrain is a gambit to the losers of the world: "You have left the asylum and are waiting for a taxi to take you to paradise". Talker is a proselytiser, defender of the faith. But he keeps a private journal (Diary of a Network Methodist) in which he articulates a deep scepticism, exposes lost love and his own history in the asylum. There are (too) many words/images in the book. Intercut with scenes from Carl DreyerÂ’s Day of Wrath, the video attempts an escape from image and word, a fugue through memory, while it oscillates between stillness/movement, language/silence, love/truth. |
