Link to the text: https://www.scribd.com/document/444850897/In-the-Light-s-Shadow If literature is to compete with films, this I think is the new form that it must take. Also, I say in the title mostly using sounds I recorded, I did sample occasionally in this, like, for instance, I sampled 3 different versions of Julia Holter’s song Sea Called Me Home to create these explosion like sounds beginning at 1:45:00. I also did use recordings of me playing an online piano. And the idea of writing a film scenario like this is not unique to me. In fact at one point is was considered to be its own literary form. Notable writers of film scenarios were people like Antonin Artaud, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Benjamin Fondane (who was a really interesting Dadaist and dissident surrealist poet who got into a fist fight with Andre Breton and who is unjustly neglected, due to his dying in Auschwitz, if he had survived he would have been far more well known). Oh and the short film that is the intermission - “Holderlin at the Piano” - was edited together by me using clips from Abel Gance’s film about Beethoven.

The idea behind this was inspired by the ideas of Michel Henry, this is an attempt at trying to show that one can do far more with words than one can do with images, especially in trying to express experiences that are internal and thereby impossible to depict in an outward way, which is all that images can show us, they can only show us what is outward. Words, I feel and attempted to demonstrate, can do what film cannot and that is depict what is internal. This can be done in the way in which Japanese poets wrote haiku using the juxtaposition of two incongruous terms, for instance in haiku they refer often to things like "still motion" or "loud silence". Another example would be Rimbaud’s derangement of the senses, or what Michel Henry called the hallucinatory way in which Georg Trakl wrote, like in his De Profundis: "I drank the silence of God from a well in the woods." This is something that can be written, but cannot be filmed and this is how words can depict interior states of being in a kind of abstract way like music does or Kandinsky felt about color does. I feel literature must play upon this strength and develop into a format similar to what I have made if it is to realistically compete with films and survive into the future. I want to revive the dying art of using words.