FILM

Secondary Currents
Peter Rose, 1982, US, 16mm, 15'

An “imageless” film about the relationships between mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense. The shifting relationships between the subtitled narration and the voice-over commentary constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech and sound. A kind of comic opera, but also a dark metaphor for the order and entropy of language. “I’m an escape artist. I aspire to travel in the fifth dimension, to speak unknown languages, to discover the next stage in the evolution of thought. I construct structural parables that allude to the possibility of there being more to the universe than is permitted by our explanations.” (PR)