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Ryan Hafer
Surrealist Text (excerpt)


(Editor’s note: These “narratives” were based on a process of fusing together disparate fragments of story and dialogue encountered while channel surfing. The inspiration for this project was the early Surrealist practice of wandering in and out of movies in progress, allowing the different film fragments to merge into one hybridized narrative.)



…Zoolander has been sleeping for one week. This is rather odd for the queer soul, for he thinks he’s at a day spa for that period. Paris in the early nineteenth century, the town is the reactor for the changing of a social whim and the setting for a new bohemian society. A conductor waives his hands, commanding the orchestra to play. Behind the conductor is a turn-of-the-century theater. Instead of thespians leaping across the stage, a movie plays in the background. The grains are intense and the development is poor. But the purpose for such a film is to place the setting for a poor soul that hasn’t discovered love…




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