comm 321 "ah pook is here" presentation
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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