Dancing in the Abyss

AP/POLS 3040A: Modern Political Thought: From Kant to Foucault; Professor Shannon Bell
Music: Telefon Tel Aviv -- Your Mouth

Dancing in the Abyss

Director & Writer: Mohsin S. Warsi
Cinematography & Editing: Keethan K. & Mohsin S. Warsi
Voicework: Keethan K.
Technical Production: Anthony H. and Waleed L.

Monologue:

"Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo."*

For I say, death is NOTHING. Death is NO eternal other. All are NOT equal before death. I say, let your death be an ode to life. Crown thyself in the Hierarchy of Death. Thus, let your life burn bright.

Look at me dance. I am the wild-eyed heretic angel gone mad, painting my face in the colours of joy. It is necessary for those whose feet dangle in the abyss.

And let your blood flow. The rabble says it is waste. The rabble says you waste the useful thus. I say, I do not waste, I DESTROY. Destruction is purpose beyond utility and servile subordination.

Thus I tell you, create with blood. For the Divine is around you always, and always seeks the openings of your wounds to make its way to your heart. So I say, bleed freely; and live.

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"And only when he turns away from himself, will he jump over his shadow—and verily, into his own sun."**

*Poem: Mother Goose's Garland, Archibald MacLeish
** Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Nietzsche
• Abyss
• Foucault
• Bataille
• Death
• Art
• Philosophy

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this sucks

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I think it was the technical productions that really pulled this video together. A job well done.