Taedium Vitae

[ . . . ] They would willingly make of the earth a shambles
And, in a yawn, swallow the world [ . . . ]

Various clips: "The Anna Akhmatova File" (1989) | "Teorema" (1968) | "Salò, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom" (1975) | "Come and See" (1985) | "Sátántangó" (1994) | "Enter the Void" (2009) | "The Mirror" (1975) | "Altered States" (1980)

Music and ambiance:
• Liisa Hirsch's "Ascending & Descending" (modulated)
• Frédéric Chopin's "Prelude Op. 28" (reversed)
• Sóley's "xxx" (modulated)
• Iannis Xenakis' "Tetras" (excerpt and modulated)
• Yair Klartag's "Nothing to Express" (excerpt and modulated)

Excerpts, from, Charles Baudelaire's, "Fleurs du mal" (Flowers of Evil), Rudyard Kipling's, "If-" (truncated), and original writing mixed throughout

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