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Echolalia (2003)

Directed by Robert Arnold

Overview

Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.

Length 3 minutes

Actors

George W. Bush | Ari Fleischer | John Ashcroft | Tony Blair | Tariq Aziz | Colin Powell | Richard Butler | Jeremy Greenstock | Suzanne Malveaux | John Negroponte | Victoria Clarke | Paul Wolfowitz | Edward Kennedy | Bill Arkin | Joe Biden