mercury (1999)

In the context of an Imageless Films series its significant that mercury is radio as cinema a looped excerpt from Orson Welless Mercury Theatre radio play of DRACULA a performance of sound creating sight but especially the utterances and hallucinated descriptions of Mina from Bram Stokers novel in a trance picturing what she visualizes in a hypnotized state the narcoleptic sibilances of a somnambulistic cinema manifesting what is not present to others the experience ends for the live audience with a shock of mirrored reflection something real in the room Bradley Eros