Filmmaker’s Note
Last summer I finally reached my breaking point. And you know what I mean. So I started some Lincoln Therapy. I wrote his name all over the place, half-kidding myself that it might serve as a “vehicle” for an exorcism. You know: “The Constitution commands you! The Constitution commands you!” Five minutes. Ten at most.
Sixteen months later I have a thirty-four minute film that mixes several diverse “elements” into a somewhat squirrely meditation on Magical Thinking. I use poems, quotations, snap-shot videos, a be-bop version of Lincoln’s campaign song, “ Lincoln and Liberty,” pithy remarks from Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and, of course, that stirring anthem from the Irish Rebellion of 1798: “Boolavogue”
In short, the usual.
(You’re such a tease, Reader.)
“Lincoln and Mother Theresa rob a liquor store then gallop west in her ‘65 Mustang.”
C’mon
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Scaredy-Cat
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