Lamentations (A Monument for the Dead World)

One of the key works from Bruce Elder's 35-hour film cycle The Book of All the Dead, Lamentations is comprised of a complex patchwork of audio and visual elements: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico's Yucatan.