from the digital video "LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE" by Phil Solomon (2007)
"In Last Days in a Lonely Place, Phil Solomon transforms the virtual landscapes of a video game into an existential tale of solemn beauty." Kathy Geritz, Irina Leimbacher)
"Farewell my friends
Farewell my dear ones
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring
To work for your bread
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And work for your children
I don't need much
and the older I become
I realize
My friendships
Will carry me over
any course of distance
any cause of sorrow
My friends that last
Will dance one more time
with me.
I don't need words
This, I need.
—Polly Jean Harvey, Before Departure
Inspirations: Caspar David Friedrich, Edward Hopper, Georges Seurat (drawings), Janie and Lewis, and all of the filmmakers alluded to or borrowed from...
All images for In Memoriam were captured from the videogame series Grand Theft Auto
where Mark and I,
boys of summer,
were allowed to roam and wander
without mission
without murder
“cheating” our way through the streets of polygonal horrors,
finding (to our continuing astonishment)
amusement,
poetry,
and
darkness,
just over there
at the edge of town...
—P.S."
Link: Phil Solomon (video available on the official website)
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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