The Hollow Men - T S Eliot

Deaths other kingdom? Well what's that all about then?

This is a somewhat disturbing interpretation of Eliot's 1925 poem 'The Hollow Men'. Created as a nightmare, a vision one would prefer to forget, a place one would not wish to visit. An exhausting journey to the end
of a nightmare. Mistah Kurtz, he dead.

Voice & Music by Voxinabox

Video Copyright - VoxVids (C) 2007

Directors Note: This is an experimental film with the voice track, the music track and the visual improvisation video each done in one take and then put together. The visuals are obviously heavily edited. I think the outcome is pretty emotional and quite disturbing in parts and in some sections the three 'parts' work together in a powerful way. The music spooks me! But please, tell me your thoughts? Would T S Eliot have approved?

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• eliot
• deaths
• other
• kingdom
• hollow
• men
• poem
• poetry
• apocalypse
• now
• halo

[masterconfectionist]

Great job! This is my favorite poem and you did an awesome interpretation of it. The mask is haunting, and the way you read it brings out a whole new level of horror that i hadn't even thought about before. I just put up a recording of myself reading it, but I think i put a little too much effects on my voice- I like how you were able to keep the poem interesting just by the way you read it and not what you did to your voice.

[voxinabox]

Thanks for watching and glad you liked it. Pleased you got a bit of horror out of it but not too much I hope :)

[jedi4Iife]

This is pretty disturbing, but that's what makes it so penetrating.. Nice work.

[voxinabox]

Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment and yes, it still comes across to me as pretty disturbing in places. May the force be with you :)

[claitontesch]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voxinabox]

Glad you liked it :)

[lurkerb]

In the beginning, you should burn yourself in effigy as you say "a penny for the old guy".

[jastaiti]

Excellent reading, great video, and appropriately haunting music.

If I remember what we were told in school, the poem has a little bit to do with a certain notorious military order.

[centervilletn]

sounds like an obit for America..sad, dark days indeed..

[clashcitywannabe]

That was very powerful

[alexp9999]

boo, marlon brando's reading wins