Saturday, April 14, 2007

Bald Midget Laughing at a Camel

http://theync.com/video/m040907weird.wmv




Not much to really explain here just to say this thing runs more than a minute and yet I am completely mesmerized. The camel does nothing except stands up and sits down. The kid "little person" simply points and laughs. And the soundtrack is a tad repetitive. Taken together, though, it's just all too surreal.

What this video needs is to be shown in a modern art installation. There should be at least a fifty page essay about how the camel is a symbol of our consciousness and how the child is like external forces that mock our being. It would make a great coversation piece over wine and cheese.

Something tells me this won't be that fun to watch unless you have a Foucault-quoting university student by your side.





5 comments:

Anonymous said...

ummm...that isn't a kid. it's a little person. big difference.

Christopher Trottier said...

My bad. It's late and the "little person" looks too proportionate to be a dwarf. I guess he is what you call a midget then.

puck said...

dwarf..

Christopher Trottier said...

Meh. You've caught me in a less than politically correct mood. I do pronounce him therefore to be a midget and a midget is what he shall forever be.

iván s. said...

That seems to be from Werner Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small. There's some info and comments herehttp.