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Dear Doc
Robert Kramer, 1990, US, FR, video, 35'

Een videobrief geadresseerd aan Kramers medereiziger en handlanger, Paul McIsaac, alias Doc, het hoofdpersonage in Doc’s Kingdom en Route One/USA. Deze openhartige brief, geschreven, gefilmd en samengesteld na de montage van Route One/USA, drukt alle kracht en densiteit uit van een langdurige vriendschap die stand zou houden.

I’ve always been frightened of what you might call the Jonas Mekas syndrome, which means: ‘I totally embrace my subjec­tivity’. I had decided to go to the very end, I was going to say everything. Show everything, for once. And then, there’s every way to not even show what you thought you were going to show. I really wanted to reach another level. I wanted to do this by working twenty­four hours a day. You could also call it the Chris Marker syndrome. I was going to plunge into it com­pletely. I wasn’t going to answer the phone, go home, and I’d see what would happen. What did happen is Dear Doc.

 

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