World War One Stock Footage Projected Onto An Apartment Building Across The Street
From the sidewalk, across the street: us three watch a battleship lapse into the Atlantic; grainy pillars – puffy like cotton: the smoke out of its ass. And near the billow’s top, below where our frame ends: a window: stained with television. Beyond that – an easy chair? A hiss of grain on blue glass. Our message may be getting through.
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She walks her dog under our projection: unaware of three men and the building slapped with the past. The woman, and us: staring away: the what’s-beyond of the window, that space where our projection fades: sitcoms, cans of beer, slipping by.
I wish I'd been there that night. I adore WWI stock footage. And the WWII stuff. I'll never forget that propaganda flick for American occupiers of Germany that included, among other advice, "Don't accept that hand offered in friendship! That is the hand that HEILED HITLER."
Posted by: Joy at April 7, 2004 11:20 PMThat is the sauerkraut company that HEILED HITLER!
So don't eat sauerkraut.
Posted by: matt at April 8, 2004 10:30 AMyes you were. But that blue window was made up.
Posted by: matt at April 8, 2004 6:19 PM