‘Back to Real Footage’

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readApr 4, 2016

Back to Real Footage from lucie elven on Vimeo.

The ten minutes you’ll spend on this odd monologue (starring anarchist/anthropologist David Graeber, favorite of the Baffler-reading lefty young, and Suzanne Elven) might be the weirdest part of your day. I mean, I hope it is. Director Lucie Elven suggests that it will convey “the familiar experience of listening to someone misguidedly giving you a terrible, episodic, parabolic pep talk,” but there is a lot more going on just under the surface.

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