pre-production notes for the dead man 2: return of the dead man
bataille: all his writings are cut-up by oblivion, discontinuity and incompletion.
what the film must not be is an attempt to film bataille. not an adaptation. nor “based on” bataille. images must not be literal translations of scenes in his fiction. this film in shards and splinters. this film must rage incoherently.
the fertility of a film (this film) is its inachievement, its premature termination, its inconclusiveness. such a film is always too brief, and instead of a draining aesthetic attachment there is the sting.
a bricolage. this film plunders bataille.
“It is not the taste or smell of death that i seek, but its sight.”
Gilles de Rais
the whiteness
of the sea
and the paleness of the light
concealed the bones
stories celebrate life, poetry exults in death. wherever a story disintegrates into pain and confusion poetry begins, and whatever stinks of imperfection crawling crippled out of a howl is a poem.
only when human relationships collapse in darkness and pain is there worth. between her and me there was never anything possible.
nick land
the thirst for annihilation
georges bataille and virulent nihilism
1992
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