Secondary Currents

Film Maker
Rose, Peter
Year
1983
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
16mm
Length
16
Genre
experimental
Category
art & artists

A film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an “imageless” film in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and sub-titled narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech and sound. A kind of comic opera, the film is a dark metaphor for the order and entropy of language. “Secondary Currents” is the subject of a number of articles on the use of language in the arts.

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