Through the writing of a ghost-western story, I explore disjointed language. By making the technical tools visible, I seek out the points that reveal themselves or yield to literalness in performance. What position must one adopt to interpret a voice?
Machine La Nuit is the filmed narrative of a fantastical character-narrator, searching for traces of his history. Across several performance spaces, he recounts how, simultaneously, he gave himself life and death. It is the myth or legend of a character reduced to his function, using language as a weapon and condemned in the process. In three acts, he presents two hypotheses that led to his imprisonment and then his death. In this meta-narrative, or embedded narrative, on the notion of authority in the "authorial" sense, performativity in language is a matter of life and death.