Dissection is made out of found footage showing the audience during a Beatles concert. The soundtrack is a Morse code translation of the Beatles song Glass Onion and repeated counting which is taken from a recording of a so called ‘numbers-station’ . Supposedly hidden in a forest near the Frankfurt Airport and run by the U.S., it was (or still is) sending out a female voice telling numbers on a short wave radio frequency...

Dissection is a lot about loops and synchronism: visually you get different loops which form a kind of bigger structure which is repeated as well. On the audible side one is listening to Morse code which could be understood as permanently repeated variations of two-signal-loops and a voice counting, repeating itself over and over again. Sound and image are not synchronized intendedly here, but by the material itself through different rhythms of loops meeting each other inescapably…

1) Glass Onion is a Beatles song from The White Album. The song primarily written by John Lennon provides a dissection of many famous Beatles songs. It is a response to those people who attempted to find hidden meanings in Beatles songs. Most notably the line “The Walrus was Paul” (a back reference to “I Am the Walrus”), which is misleading: the Walrus was John. Other Beatles’ songs mentioned in Glass Onion are: Strawberry Fields Forever, There’s a Place, Within You Without You, I’m Looking Through You, Lady Madonna, The Fool on the Hill, and Fixing a Hole.

2) Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast people reading streams of numbers, words, or letters (sometimes using a phonetic alphabet). Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are channels of communication used to send messages to spies. This has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station.