Echolalia (2003)
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.
Cast
George W. Bush
Self
Ari Fleischer
Self
John Ashcroft
Self
Tony Blair
Self
Tariq Aziz
Self
Colin Powell
Self
Suzanne Malveaux
Self
Joe Biden
Self
