Made for the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris exposition VOILA (Summer 2000), from "found" footage taken from hundreds of unfinished films stored in Anthology's basement. A tour-de-force montage film with the spirit of Vigo and Buñuel hovering over it. Made before Godard's Origins of the 21st Century, Ziz's film provokes interesting comparisons. Both deal with images of the 20th century. But while Godard's film could be described as a poster, Ziz's film is a poem. I don't have to tell you which one I prefer...

Jonas Mekas

The last century is x-rayed to bring out its most unforgivable errors, its fears and hopes which spill out onto the streets of New York and Paris. The horror / terror of war, the lack of defence of nature, the descent into the abyss of modern cynicism and the ritual misanthropy of the power relations between individuals. The mind of the poet, shattered and disillusioned, keeps watch anyhow over this barbarism which has taken over planet Earth. Julius Ziz concentrates all this at a speed of 24 frames per second, making images which are able to persist in our memory as they are lyrically edited in an emotional symbiosis with Varkalis' music.

Piero Pala