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Book Review by Conor Hultman: “You
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You With Your Memory Are Dead
by Gary J. Shipley
Inside the Castle ($19)
Horror is often thought of in a narrative sense. The tension of an unsuspecting
victim, the dramatic irony of the knife out of frame, the nervous triumph of the
lone survivor: these are all elements that rely on time and sequence and other
formalized storytelling conventions. However, an aspect of horror just as familiar,
probably more familiar to the average consumer, is the horror of discovery—the
encounter and the shock of the confrontation with an image.
Edmund Elias Merhige’s classic experimental horror film Begotten understands
this feeling. It is a black-and-white barrage of scenes that disturb, not for their
violence or surprise, but for the bare suggestions immediate in their witnessing. A
nightmarish allegory of creation myths, Begotten unnerves at a visual level locked
in our inchoate unconsciousness.
Gary Shipley locked himself in a room for two weeks with Begotten on loop and
wrote poetic and philosophical impressions of the film. The result is You With Your
Memory Are Dead, a book with literary qualities to match the dooming, awed
experience of the film. In a stunning translation from image into text, Shipley has
created a new type of criticism, one that realizes the personal reception of these
grotesque scenes and configures them into sentences that depersonalize and
unsettle the reader in the familiarly indistinct manner of Merhige’s film.
This is a disfigured language. There are no names, there are no characters. The
conception of the human is devalued. When the I emerges, it is decentered and
diffused, as in:
“Because I once woke in a medical centre with ten doctors’ hands inside my head.
And after deliberating for what seemed like hours, they regretfully pronounced a
word they could not pronounce.”
How the film incessantly presents image after visceral image, and nothing more,
this book consists of isolated, invocating lines that usher the reader into an
unending, unexplainable nausea. Lines such as, “When people are the parasites of
their mirrors,” and “Because there’s only joy in the things that aren’t there, and that
were never there,” and “The sound of momentum of disembowelled sand.” The
chapter titles are their own poems, “HATCHING CYCLE OF FUTILE EXERTIONS,”
“PHASE OF VIRTUALISED INVASION.” This is a horror that cannot be rationalized
with the fear of death, or pain, or any obsession with the body merely. This is a
horror of Being. To understand why Shipley frightens you is to understand the
lower mechanisms of fear.
You With Your Memory Are Dead is an impressionistic masterpiece of loathing. To
pair it with a viewing of Begotten will make for an unforgettable Halloween evening.
Remember, bad memories are memorable, too, technically.
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