Paris Heretics

Richard Dailey is a poet who writes about his life, and curates his experiences with such a blend of whimsy and gravitas that it conjures a mysticism in the shared memory, making the reader feel like the moments of their own lives might become holy in their telling.

For this video, we focused on the use of found footage, in order to echo the poem as it sifts through recollections, reconstructing a lifelong narrative in fragments. As Richard’s voice searches the jewelry box of his mind, stringing together a series of symbols and partial memories, the images onscreen flicker and flutter through, from one ghost world to the next, grazing us with elusive hints of corroborative meaning.

The montage and the original piano score are both by sound and video artist Lesteria, who pays tribute to the poem by guiding the footage clips into a dance between the literal and abstract, the pedestrian and the psychedelic, reaching, as the words do, to transcend the strict logic of time.

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