Friday, January 28, 2005

Abecederial Axis Evil Of

This movie review from the NYTimes doesn't make me want to see the feature, but now I'm desperate to see the short that precedes it:

The short film 'Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet,' whose curious title is explained by the film's premise. The artist and documentary maker Lenka Clayton took President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address (the 'axis of evil' speech), chopped it into its constituent 4,100 words, and arranged the results in alphabetical order. The project is so simple as to constitute a prank, but a result is a bracing piece of avant-garde agitprop that provides an X-ray of American political oratory in the wake of 9/11. The film is by turns sobering and funny, as unexpected fragments of syntax emerge from the onslaught of words: 'Always, always, always, always, America,' the president seems to chant, before engaging in an accidental exhortation: 'Let's, liberate, liberty.'"

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