“How to find order in chaos?”

An audio-visual spectrum of motifs of sailing, hunting, hulls, death, and the industrial era. Melville, Diviš, Boudník. Decomposition!

‘In the early hours of February 9th, I had a dream: a colleague from the Academy, the nicest person I know, arranged for me to be admitted to the strictest psychiatric ward imaginable, promptly and without delay. John reappeared in the dream once more and brought a leather bag with my last hypnotics in it. Were you born? What did you do?’

Moby Dick. A ship called humanity. Where is it sailing to? Breakfast, mast, first dinner. The hierarchy of the crew conquering nature. The deck. How to maintain morale? A blacksmith. The ship’s instruments. Cetology. Fish on a line and fish swimming freely. Is the object of pursuit still there?

‘The ship’s navigator remained alive the longest.’ The perseverance of the one buffeted by waves. A Man-God in struggle against nature! Ahab! Bring on death! A staged essay on darkness.

Season 45: Resources