comm 321 "ah pook is here" presentation

By: LUIZA ALBRECHT

BOBBY BIZIAREK

By Philip Hunt

(1994)

Won 10 International Awards

Including BestExperimental Technique

“When I become death, death is the seed from

which I grow.”

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

-Beat Writer

-Audio came from tracks of

his cd, Dead City Radio =

Ah Pook is Here and

No More Stalins, No More

Hitlers

-Animator used elements

from Burroughs’ works

-”Cut-up” Style

Who is Ah Pook?

Ah Puch = Mayan God of Death

-Looks like “bloated corpse”

-Head of an owl on a human body

-Burroughs lived in Mexico and was interested in Mayan culture

Who is …?

- Alter Ego

- Angel- Muan, the evil bird,

Ah Puch’s messenger

- Owl figure from Mayan mythology

Possible elements from Naked Lunch

• “The principal weapon of Minraud is of course heat — In the centre of all their cities stand The Ovens …The Oven Guards are red crustacean men”

• “White Hot Sky”

Main Ideas

• Death needs time• Control needs time• Future time after war

has destroyed earth• Bombs as

instruments of control - never land on planet because Ah Pook is death

Main Ideas

• Ah Pook goes into planet + rain + plants growing out of him = “Death needs time for what it kills to grow” (think quote from the beginning)

• His death is inevitable because there’s nothing else for him to destroy