The video, whose title is a palindrome (reading the same forward and backward) is an endless loop reflecting an intense contemporary apocalyptic vision. It captures the ailments of our society by overlaying layers of films and graphic images that give restless expression to a disharmonious sense of existence informed by disassociation and disconnection from nature.
Superimposed over original footage of Middle Eastern landscapes are images from archival films, such as animal experiments; economic graphics of the Great Depression in the 1930s; and people who suffer from Schizophrenia, OCD, or catatonia.
The work was inspired by the French anarchist political tract The Coming Insurrection (2007). Written by an anonymous Invisible Committee, it offers a striking diagnosis of modern capitalist civilization and a radical strategic proposal for revolutionary struggle against capitalism.
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