Ceci N’est Pas (1996)
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Super 8, 4 minutes, silent
The trace function of death and nothing.
The cadaverous presence establishes a relation between here and nowhere.
- Maurice Blanchot
The Phantome disturbs by its just out of reach presence.
- Bruce Witsiepe
...In Ceci Níest Pas, the train, that ubiquitous symbol of sex, death, and cinema itself draws us away from the fantasy of a presence in this world and towards the phantasms beyond. The destination of this unseen train can only be the invisible realm of nowhere.
- Bruce Stater, online review of MOMA's Big as Life 1998 screening
The cadaverous presence establishes a relation between here and nowhere.
- Maurice Blanchot
The Phantome disturbs by its just out of reach presence.
- Bruce Witsiepe
...In Ceci Níest Pas, the train, that ubiquitous symbol of sex, death, and cinema itself draws us away from the fantasy of a presence in this world and towards the phantasms beyond. The destination of this unseen train can only be the invisible realm of nowhere.
- Bruce Stater, online review of MOMA's Big as Life 1998 screening
SCREENINGS
- MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NY ‘BIG AS LIFE’
- WHITNEY MUSEUM: THE AMERICAN CENTURY