Canetti Reading Group

2019, 18 minutes

An essay in Elias Canetti’s seminal work ‘Crowds and Power’ becomes the point of focus for a fictional reading group.

An essay in Elias Canetti’s seminal work ‘Crowds and Power’ becomes the point of focus for a fictional reading group. Each character in the group inhabits six typologies of the crowd identified by Canetti. The work presented takes the form of a script; where moments of awareness and a strengthening relationship to the artwork reveal themselves. The film is edited from a series of rehearsals with actors in preparation for a performance at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. Actors were cast closely to match the typologies set out in the script.

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