Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia

Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia is a re-edit of David Lean’s 217-minute orientalist “classic” Lawrence of Arabia into a 15-minute hallucination of repeating masculinized poses, costumes and dramatic gestures. An algorithmic structure condenses and frame-by-frame remixes the original film into a cycling of divergence, convergence and momentary mirrorings. Stripped of narrational logic and image stability and combined with a re-mix of Maurice Jarre’s “Overture from Lawrence of Arabia,” Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia transforms a Hollywood representation of heroic colonialist history into an affect of melancholy.