Now I Want to Laugh

Now I Want to Laugh

2014, Germany, 2x16mm, colour, sound, 15 min.
Live expanded cinema

This is a simulation of a prototype for a “feeling machine” envisioned by Dr. D. Forme in 1917. This simulation is based on a short description and diagram found in the doctor’s notebooks. The description focuses on only one section of the machine. Brief mentions of the other sections were included but no detailed information was discovered. Obviously, the machine was never built, yet according to the description its purpose was “to replace the faulty mechanism of human emotion”.

Museo Nitsch Napoli
Saturday, 24 June, 2017 - 22:00