Deborah Stratman Deborah Stratman Deborah Stratman

It Will Die Out In The Mind
2006, video, 3:50 minutes

PART 2 of THE PARANORMAL TRILOGY

Synopsis
A short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age. Texts are lifted from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker in which the Stalker’s daughter redeems his otherwise doomed spiritual journey. She offers him something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology as the conceptual pillar of the human spirit.

The title is taken from a passage about time from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed:

Stavrogin: ...in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there'll be no more time.

Kirillov: I know. It's quite true, it's said very clearly and exactly. When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won't be any time, because it won't be needed. It's perfectly true.

Stavrogin: Where will they put it then?

Kirillov: They won't put it anywhere. Time isn't a thing, it's an idea. It'll die out in the mind.


MOCAtv's YouTube exhibition, Techno Mystic, features It Will Die Out In The Mind here.

Reviews
"The problem, as Stratman alludes to, is the lack of enjoyment in a world without mystery."
Corinna Kirsch, artfcity.com, November 14, 2012

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