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[John M. Krafft]

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    "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" is set in
   Alamogordo, New Mexico (1983), where the main character, Jacob Maker,
   designs gunsight displays at a flight simulation factory. Jacob also
   keeps bees. His hives are filled with "Mesopotamian" bees that he has
   inherited from his grandfather. Through these bees, the dead of the
   future begin to appear, introducing Jacob to a type of destiny that
   pushes him away from the normal world, enveloping him in a grotesque
   miasma of past and synthetic realities. The bees show Jacob the story
   of his grandfather's acquisition and fatal association with the
   "Mesopotamian" bees, in the years following the First World War. The
   bees also lead Jacob away from his home, out to the Alamogordo desert,
   slowly revealing to him their synthetic/mechanical world, which exists
   in a darkness beyond the haze of his own thoughts. Passing through
   Trinity Site, birthplace of the Plutonium bomb, Jacob arrives at a
   gigantic cave beneath the desert. There, he enters the odd world of
   the bees, and fulfills his destiny. Traveling both to the past and the
   future, Jacob ends at Basra, Iraq, in the year 1991, where he meets a
   victim that he must kill.
   
   Independently executed over six years, "WAX or the discovery of
   television among the bees" combines compelling narrative, in the
   realistic/fantastic vein of Thomas Pynchon or Salman Rushdie, with the
   graphic fluidity of video technique. The result is an odd, new type of
   story experience, where smooth and sudden transpositions of picture
   and sound can nimbly follow and fuse with fantastical, suddenly
   changing, and often accelerated narrative. The result resembles
   story-telling in animated film. Yet location photography and archive
   research form the backbone of the piece.
   
   "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00, mono)
   provides an example of a new type of independent "electronic cinema"
   that will become more common as the 1990's progress.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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John M. Krafft, English                 | Miami University--Hamilton
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John M. Krafft, English                 | Miami University--Hamilton
Voice:   513-863-8833, ext. 342         | 1601 Peck Boulevard
Fax:     513-863-1655                   | Hamilton, OH  45011-3399
E-mail:  jmkrafft at miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
         jmkrafft at miavx1.acs.muohio.edu