Lenka Clayton
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet, 2003
Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet, 2003
Lenka Clayton zerlegt eine Rede an die Nation von US-Präsident George W. Bush Jr. in ihre einzelnen Worte. Sie wurde gehalten am 29. Januar 2002 nach den Anschlägen in New York und Washington und ist bekannt geworden durch die Bemerkungen zur sogenannten 'Achse des Bösen'. Die aus dem Fernsehen mitgeschnittene Rede wird von ihr neu montiert. 3814 Worte wurden ohne Pause alphabetisch aneinander gereiht. Die ursprünglich 48 Minuten dauernde Rede schrumpft auf eine Länge von 18 Minuten "Wortmaterial" zusammen.
"President Bush's first 'State of the Union Address' changed the world. It was broadcast live on the 29th January 2002, four months after the attack on the World Trade Centre, and marked the beginning of a new political era. It was in this speech that Bush began dividing up the world, declaring war on terrorism and naming North Korea, Iran and Iraq as an "axis of evil".
A speech is more than the sum of its parts. The words that make it up are twisted, negated, spun and stressed into shape so that the listener is unwittingly carried along with it, influenced by much more that what the speaker is saying. This film attempts to remove the political baggage from the speech and to extract only its substance, the 3,814 words which were actually spoken. From an original duration of 48 minutes, just over 18 minutes of alphabetically ordered words remain, no footage has been added and no word omitted" (Lenka Clayton, zit. nach Informationsblatt der Künstlerin).