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sucking on words

10/01/2007

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0hr 59min

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Documentary

conceptual writing - a fusion of art and literature

STORY

sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also features critical commentary on his intense and ground-breaking conceptualist practice from three of North America’s leading voices on avant-garde poetics. Shot on location in New York in 2007, the lively conversations featured in sucking on words are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith’s witty and provocative works, which are already regarded as hallmarks of 21st-century literature. The film showcases readings from some of his notorious books: No.111 (found phrases ending in the ‘r’ rhyme and filtered alphabetically by syllable count); Soliloquy (a transcription of every word Goldsmith spoke for a week); Day (a retyping of one day’s New York Times newspaper); Traffic (one day’s worth of hourly radio traffic bulletins); and The Weather (one year’s worth of radio weather bulletins).

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Robert Fitterman
  • Barbara Coles
  • Bruce Andrews

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • information as material

      Production Countries

    • United States of America

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    Robert Fitterman

    Himself

    Barbara Coles

    Herself

    Bruce Andrews

    Himself

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