Cultural Writing. Jalal Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist presently living in Lebanon. His video and installation works, which include Radical Closure Artist with Bandaged Sense Organ (1997), have been shown at the San Francisco Cinematheque; the Pacific Film Archive; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; and elsewhere. He edited the special Discourse issue Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World. FORTHCOMING is a fascinating blend of political theory, film theory, and cross-genre writing -- an essential book for those interested in contemporary thought and culture.
Perfect textual rendering of thresholds and overturns, sends a boy awash into fugues, tripping on smooth ground as in The Sacrifice.
The workings of colour and light are catalysed only by rhythm. You cannot stop to measure the pace of flickering, dizzied even though there is no movement at all, only the everfading palimpsest of images