On the continuity of melancholy

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".. we base all the events in our lives on the continuum of our sorrows; we translate into the emotional language of continuity what would be more accurately expressed in the clear and trenchant narrative of objective events. Continuity is but our emotion, our unease, our melancholy, and the role of emotion is perhaps only to blunt ever-hostile newness.."

Casually dropping by a random Tuesday evening, Sam Renseiw got mixed up in a rather nostalgic set-up at Vaterpas Fine Arts. While wondering about the sense of space and place in time, and, if all might be a revolving simulacrum re-performed by an atavistic new generation, blurred footage served to clarified. View the short, unfolding ballade by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 398, 01'35'', 7.3MB, Quicktime/mov -Flash version at Blip.tv)