Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia

'Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia' is a re-edit of David Lean's 217-minute orientalist classic 'Lawrence of Arabia' into a 15-minute hallucination of repeating masculinized poses, costumes and dramatic gestures. An algorithmic structure condenses and frame-by-frame remixes the original film into a cycling of divergence, convergence and momentary mirrorings. Stripped of narrational logic and image stability and combined with a re-mix of Maurice Jarre's 'Overture from Lawrence of Arabia', 'Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia' transforms a Hollywood representation of heroic colonialist history into an affect of melancholy.

Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia, us, 2004, 14:43