Catastrophe Apostrophe
| CATASTROPHE APOSTROPHE an artist's film of image, sound and text |
| FORTHCOMING ON DVD IN SPRING 2010 "CATASTROPHE APOSTROPHE: A TRIO OF CURIO FILMS" (CATALYSIS PROJECTS) While driving through the northern Sahara in a four-stroke Renault Clio, I picked up a hitchhiking potter who insisted on driving my car, with me riding in the back seat. Transfixed by curiosity and amusement, I went along with it. He was a truly maniacal driver, and every time we nearly died - just moments before - he would fling his hands off the wheel, whirl back to face me, and announce quite happily in French: "CATASTROPHE!" When I first listened to Veronika Krausas' recording for player piano, this memory came flooding back. I fixed upon the idea of diversion...of working within all senses of the word: A change in a course. An entertaining pastime. Something different than expected. A distraction from what is really going on. In the end, a ferociously irritating lark emerged along the lines of a migraine, a demented roadside advertising scheme, and a naughty love note. Somewhere the apostrophes have had a terrible accident, but the signs are too distracting for us to notice or care. After all, we're in the back seat, and there's not much we can do but witness. WRITER & DIRECTOR Quintan Ana Wikswo COMPOSER & MUSIC Veronika Krausas "orange white" from Player Piano Project, 2008 (c) 2009 |
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