Woven out of syllables and images

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The secret was there, in those pages, woven out of syllables and images. He entrusted it to me just before he died. He made me swear not to open it until forty days after his death, long enough to allow him to die completely. I opened it on the night of the forty-first day. I was overwhelmed by perfume. I read the first sentence and understood nothing. I read a paragraph and understood nothing. I read the whole of the first page and was illuminated.

Capturing footage from a recent Ben Jelloun pro forma transformation, Sam Renseiw, followed for a moment the indescisive clothing moves of a blurred character. View the teasing strip by clicking here or enter the line-up above. (patafilm # 374, 03'13'', 7.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the ecstasy of communication

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"The simulacra have passed from the second to the third, from the dialectic of alienation to the giddiness of transparency. At the same time, after and with De la Séduction the dream of a transgression...and the nostalgia for a symbolic order of any kind, born out of the deep of primitive societies, or of our historical alienation, have been lost. With Séduction there is...no more recovered object, no more original desire..."

Capturing some obscene footage without any secret(s), dissolving completely in information and communication, Sam Renseiw speculates in a short (re)production of simulacra and seduction. View the readable, moving pro forma commodity by clicking here or enter the generalised interface above. (patafilm # 368, 02'51'', 25.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the consistency of performance art

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"There are two art worlds: the popular one which anyone can understand, and the academic one controlled by relatively few people. The latter has a very different approach and tries to be sensational for the sake of it...People understand less an unmade bed or a pickled pig's head.... There are no emperor's new clothes around Jack Vettriano's paintings, by the way."

Having a bout of split-personality amidst 4 fair maiden in a sand-childish pro forma environment, Sam Renseiw opted for the popular Vettriano optic. View the fine footage by clicking here, or enter the stiletto game above. (patafilm # 369 01'27'' 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)