Secondary Currents

Overview

Secondary Currents is a film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an 'imageless' film in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and subtitled narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech, and sound. A kind of comic opera, the film is a dark metaphor for the order and entropy of language and has been the subject of a number of articles on the use of language in the arts.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1982

Original language

English

Director

Peter Rose

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2364849