The ghost of John Cassavetes has been embedded with the insurgents his camera circling the small bowl of heroin displayed for the Time magazine photographer. Cassavetes sits motionless behind the lens as the photographer changes his flash. The photographer is silenced before he can speak. His silence is felt through the Pakistani cave.
Posthumous reels captured by civilian contractors are sold to a small news agency and surface at the Sundance film festival. Celebrities their gift bags in tow flock the small fifty seat theater and begin to speak on their cell phones. Air is pumped into the theater as the celebrities breathe in the black ash trucked in special from the graves of Rwanda. Articles show up in Maxim magazine and feature photographs of celebrities vomiting onto the snow caked wood balcony of a local hotel. The ghost of Cassavetes stares blankly at the small rain clouds gathering over the horizon.
- Chris Mansel
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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