Quick-cut j i t T e R Y video: A manifesto
I have been arguing for the artistic and intellectal potential of fast-cut video ever since I published the book, the rise of the image the fall of the word, at the beginning of this century. Here is an article I wrote in 2011 making one version of my case.
What I have tried to do now is put that argument itself into a video. This video, therefore, is intended not only to make the argument for the potential of this new art form but to serve as evidence of that potential (as was—for a then new art form—Chuck Berry’s record Rock & Roll Music).
This video is, consequently, a bit less condensed than most of my other videos: it runs about three-and-a-half minutes—a minute longer than Chuck Berry’s song. However, it is a whole lot shorter than that that article, not to mention that book.
I should add that the video is not without its pretensions: Shakespeare’s Hamlet is, for example, much quoted.
I am curious whether you think the video succeeds in making and embodying the point.