Cao Fei, Phillip S. Solomon & Mark Lapore | Machinima

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i:mirror

de Cao Fei, 2007, 28 min

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Rehearsals for Retirement

de Phillip S. Solomon, 2007, 11 min

Première partie de « In Memoriam », un ensemble d’œuvres comprenant plusieurs vidéos entièrement tournées dans le monde virtuel du jeu vidéo Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Solomon transforme Liberty City, métropole basé sur la ville de New York dans laquelle se déroule le jeu, en un espace de réflexion et d’immobilité : dépourvu de joueurs, plein de mélancolie, de nostalgie, de perte, de chagrin et d’exemples de beauté poétique irrésistible. Cette œuvre a été créée suite au décès de Mark LaPore, ami de longue date de Salomon, à l’âge de 53 ans, le 11 septembre 2005.

A souvenir from a dream.
We walk in our sleep and fire walks with us.
By fire we are consumed.
Rehearsing for eternity for retirement.
Life a sum of stolen moments
stolen away by the Grand Theft.
Next stop the twilight plane,
as an essence scattered,
haunting all we ever knew.

The days grow longer for smaller prizes
I feel a stranger to all surprises
You can have them I don’t want them
I wear a different kind of garment
In my rehearsals for retirement
The lights are cold again they dance below me
I turn to old friends they do not know me
All but the beggar he remembers
I put a penny down for payment
In my rehearsals for retirement
Had I known the end would end in laughter
I tell my daughter it doesn’t matter

Phil Ochs, Rehearsals for Retirement

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Last Days in a Lonely Place

de Phillip S. Solomon, 2007, 20 min

Farewell my friends
Farewell my dear ones
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring
To work for your bread
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And work for your children

I don’t need much
and the older I become
I realize
My friendships
Will carry me over
any course of distance
any cause of sorrow
My friends that last
Will dance one more time
with me.
I don’t need words
This, I need.

Polly Jean Harvey, Before Departure

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Still Raining, Still Dreaming

de Phillip S. Solomon, 2008, 12 min

Like Rain it sounded till it curved
And then I new ’twas Wind —
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as sand —
When it had pushed itself away
To some remotest Plain
A coming as of Hosts was heard
That was indeed the rain –
It filled the Wells, it pleased the Pools
It warbled in the Road —
It pulled the spigot from the Hills
And let the Floods abroad —
It loosened acres, lifted seas
The sites of Centres stirred
Then like Elijah rode away
Upon a Wheel of Cloud.

Emily Dickinson, Like Rain it Sounded Till it Curved

Rainy day, rain all day
Ain’t no use in gettin uptight
Just let it groove its own way
Let it drain your worries away yeah
Lay back and groove on a rainy day hey
Lay back and dream on a rainy day
Lay back and groove on a rainy day
Lay back
Oh yeah !

Jimi Hendrix, Still Raining, Still Dreaming

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Crossroad

de Mark Lapore & Philip S. Solomon, 2005, 5 min

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
Down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above for mercy, “Save me if you please.”

I went down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
Down to the crossroads, tried to flag a ride.
Nobody seemed to know me, everybody passed me by.

Well I’m going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
Going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
You can still barrelhouse, baby, on the riverside.

Going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
Going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
You can still barrelhouse, baby, on the riverside.

You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy, Willie Brown.
Run, you can run, tell my friend-boy, Willie Brown.
And I’m staying at the crossroads, believe I’m sinking down.


Robert Johnson

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