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Ten sections. The words are on screen throughout; the voice is the ground the music pierces. Closed captions are the film's own text, on its own clock — turn them on if the words go under the strobe.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Warning — photosensitivity
00:16 Prologue — Why This Is Different
02:31 I, 1 — On Logic and Its Limits
06:34 I, 2 — On Cause and Effect
10:44 I, 3 — On the Void That Generates
13:56 II, 1 — On Consciousness and What It Cannot Know
16:53 II, 2 — On Language and Its Betrayal
21:26 II, 3 — On the Self That Isn't
25:13 III, 1 — On What Remains
29:30 III, 2 — On Knowing Nothing & The Gridlock
33:38 III, Coda — On the Paradox of This Document
SOURCES
Films quoted: Persona (Bergman, 1966); The Flicker (Conrad, 1966); La Jetée (Marker, 1962); In Absentia (Quay Brothers, 2000). Torn past recognition: Stalker (Tarkovsky); Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren & Hammid); Wavelength (Snow); Under the Skin (Glazer); Street of Crocodiles (Quay Brothers); Samadhi (Belson); The Prisoner, "Once Upon a Time".
Music: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Summvs (2011) and Glass (2018); Christina Kubisch, Nine Magnetic Places (2017); Maryanne Amacher, Music for Sound-Joined Rooms; Éliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (1986); Nina C. Young, Memento Mori (modulated); Alex Taylor, Descent (modulated); La Nuit de l'Arène (uncredited — the recording carries no metadata; if it is yours, write and the credit will be corrected).
Text: Alogical Isness; Lacero, from Malgré Tout: a Guide to Nothingness (W.U.L.D.). Origin: a dream written down on 18 June 2010.
FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS — REDUCED FLASH · VOICE FORWARD (second edition): youtube.com/watch?v=A-S3MF5rCtg
The complete apparatus — every source with its timecodes, the method, the chronology — is at https://wuld.ink/illogically-is/apparatus/
Voice: synthetic. Pictures: code, citation, and the film's own earlier generations — every one listed in the apparatus. No credits appear in the film; this is where they are.
W.U.L.D.: Incorporated — https://wuld.ink/essays/alogically-is/
#experimentalfilm #essayfilm #nihilism #datamosh #flickerstrike
Summary description:
An essay film on metaphysical nihilism, read in a single fixed voice. The picture behind the words is torn on purpose: the films it cites are lacerated past quotation, the text is the only thing on screen that holds, and the print itself — grain, gate, scratches, the reel that fails to change — reacts to what is said. Nothing in it is safe.
Ten sections. The words are on screen throughout; the voice is the ground the music pierces. Closed captions are the film's own text, on its own clock — turn them on if the words go under the strobe.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Warning — photosensitivity
00:16 Prologue — Why This Is Different
02:31 I, 1 — On Logic and Its Limits
06:34 I, 2 — On Cause and Effect
10:44 I, 3 — On the Void That Generates
13:56 II, 1 — On Consciousness and What It Cannot Know
16:53 II, 2 — On Language and Its Betrayal
21:26 II, 3 — On the Self That Isn't
25:13 III, 1 — On What Remains
29:30 III, 2 — On Knowing Nothing & The Gridlock
33:38 III, Coda — On the Paradox of This Document
SOURCES
Films quoted: Persona (Bergman, 1966); The Flicker (Conrad, 1966); La Jetée (Marker, 1962); In Absentia (Quay Brothers, 2000). Torn past recognition: Stalker (Tarkovsky); Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren & Hammid); Wavelength (Snow); Under the Skin (Glazer); Street of Crocodiles (Quay Brothers); Samadhi (Belson); The Prisoner, "Once Upon a Time".
Music: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Summvs (2011) and Glass (2018); Christina Kubisch, Nine Magnetic Places (2017); Maryanne Amacher, Music for Sound-Joined Rooms; Éliane Radigue, Jetsun Mila (1986); Nina C. Young, Memento Mori (modulated); Alex Taylor, Descent (modulated); La Nuit de l'Arène (uncredited — the recording carries no metadata; if it is yours, write and the credit will be corrected).
Text: Alogical Isness; Lacero, from Malgré Tout: a Guide to Nothingness (W.U.L.D.). Origin: a dream written down on 18 June 2010.
FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS — REDUCED FLASH · VOICE FORWARD (second edition): youtube.com/watch?v=A-S3MF5rCtg
The complete apparatus — every source with its timecodes, the method, the chronology — is at https://wuld.ink/illogically-is/apparatus/
Voice: synthetic. Pictures: code, citation, and the film's own earlier generations — every one listed in the apparatus. No credits appear in the film; this is where they are.
W.U.L.D.: Incorporated — https://wuld.ink/essays/alogically-is/
#experimentalfilm #essayfilm #nihilism #datamosh #flickerstrike
Summary description:
An essay film on metaphysical nihilism, read in a single fixed voice. The picture behind the words is torn on purpose: the films it cites are lacerated past quotation, the text is the only thing on screen that holds, and the print itself — grain, gate, scratches, the reel that fails to change — reacts to what is said. Nothing in it is safe.
