Me Alus…
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- Me Alus…
- Ja Aluś…
- 1988
- video, color, sound
- 1min, 25sec
The film “Me Alus…” along with “Spark”, “Spark II”, and “Kakos Daimon” / “Bad God” belongs to the “cemetery series,” shot at the cemetery in Pabianice and in an experimental manner analogous to that of the artist’s early videos. In a way similar to that of “Kakos Daimon”, which he made simultaneously in 1988, “Me Alus…” shows its “rhymed gravestone sentence filmed so as to be presented as a text on an electronic billboard,” according to Libera. The film’s narratives grow gradually, enveloped in a psychedelic sound that resembles cosmic space, a sound that acts as a cosmic vehicle or embodies the overwhelming sound of nothingness. The text reads as a self-addressed poem of a buried child: “I, Alus, the little, I wanted to have long life, but God didn’t allow it, and commanded me to die.” Like other “cemetery films,” it also references gestures known from the Workshop of the Film Form. These involve mirroring: “unintentional” self-referential red light from the running camera reflected in the shiny surface of the black stone. The small red light acts like a ghost or like the author’s daimon. The camera, which pans through the sentence, finds its fulfillment in a mockingly mystical, shaky levitation of God the Father with open arms. B.P.