Overload (Or, A Modern Experience)

Like Hal Hartley's films, David Byrne's 'Report From L.A.' has a detachment between the one speaking and the words being spoken. In ‘The Quotable Gesture’ Walter Benjamin writes, “An actor must be able to space his gestures the way a typesetter produces spaced type. This effect may be achieved, for instance, by an actor’s quoting his own gesture on stage.” This is no easy feat for the actor, yet is undoubtedly achieved in Byrne's performance and in Hartley's films:

Report From L.A.
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