Làk-kat (British/American), 2013
Two-channel video, stereo sound, color
Duration 09:38 min
The haunting and subtle work Làk-kat (meaning “gibberish” or “outlandish”) investigates the dynamics of language, history and memory. It shows two videos alongside each other, each with subtitles in either British English or American English. Towards the middle of the film, the projections briefly fall out of sync, and a shadow appears to ripple from one screen across to the next, as if echoing the slight differences between the English dialects shown in the subtitles.
Photo © Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio