I really really like this Lewis, but then I've enjoyed all your video work a lot. It's very singular stuff -it has something of your poetry about it - the abrupt & often bizarre juxtapositions, which when marshalled by the very *elegant* framework of your verse are rendered both orderly & subtly spine-tingling. Here ( & elsewhere in the vids) it's looser, wilder... it's the disorder, the abrupt, the stubborn refusal to ingratiate yourself with the viewer, the presentation *as universal* of what is essentially a private language ( though that last seems to me a feature of your poetry too), that dominate...there isn't the technical delicacy of your verse...no criticism.. this is something different & its quite thrilling... The rather washed out look, too, which seems to have been quite a feature of your recent video work, I like a lot..again most uningratiating..you make us *choose* to work on it.. to opt in.. Finally ( & this was most striking in the telephone call piece you did some while ago -can't remember the name -o just looked <modern life>) there's a sense here in which the juxtapostion either serially or simultaneously of a number of disparate strands makes me feel that there are in fact *many* narratives (in the broadest sense of the word) struggling to surface. It's an odd paradox that something that looks at first sight so art*less* is in fact saturated with art*fulness* great stuff! michael ps though it defeats me utterly why you've got the past vids on your site in the horrible .flv format -surely its not some sort of copy protect move? They looked way better in QT!
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