all is nothing Design by kristen svorka
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(The exquisite corpse is a game played by several people. One person writes a phrase on a sheet of paper and passes it to the next person who writes another phrase, then folds the paper to conceal the previous contribution and passes it on. The game continues until the sheet of paper reaches the last person, resulting in a multi-line poem where each person is only aware of their contribution and the one previous until it is revealed in its entirety.)
This video is based on lines of an exquisite corpse poem. The writing has a strong overriding theme of destruction, and rather than being of a linear progression, the phrases go in circles, at points almost repeating themselves. In an attempt to echo this, the footage chosen for the video is similar in content and the way it is edited creates a cyclical theme of generation and destruction; something without a beginning and with no end.