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Vidi Vici: Narrative and the death of desire
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 15
Released: 1988-01-01
Running Time: 11 Minutes
If the intersection of desire and authority is phallus, the intersection of absence and vigilance is vagina. The tape’s laconic title (I saw, I conquered—but I didn’t come) encodes its vaginal pretense. In effect, Vidi Vici is a male artist exploring a vaginal posture. By interleafing different gender characterizations with various narrative impulses, it circumvents linearity while emptying our gaze into the interstices between action and incapacity. —Tony Conrad