In Internal Tantrum, Palestine sits before the camera with a severe expression of concentration, his body tense and his fists tightly wound. He begins to slowly chant and sway, evoking a powerful sense of grief and pain. He writes that the tape provides ‘a reading, like on the Richter Scale, of a certain kind of emotional internal roller coaster or earthquake. I used only one tone so the deliverance of energy becomes directly articulated in the sound.’ This performance is a simple yet intense rendering of pain, and the desire to move that pain outward from the internal.
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ACMI Identifier
B1000128
Language
English
Audience classification
unclassified
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, black and white and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan