Echolalia (2003)
Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.
Director: Robert Arnold
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George W. Bush as Self |
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Ari Fleischer as Self |
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John Ashcroft as Self |
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Tony Blair as Self |
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Tariq Aziz as Self |
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Colin Powell as Self |
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Richard Butler as Self |
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Jeremy Greenstock as Self |
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Suzanne Malveaux as Self |
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John Negroponte as Self |
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Victoria Clarke as Self |
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Paul Wolfowitz as Self |
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Edward Kennedy as Self |
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Bill Arkin as Self |
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Joe Biden as Self |
| Directing | Robert Arnold | Director |
