Herme’s Devotion
a mythopoetic experimental narrative
2002
Written, Directed, Edited and Scored by David Stout
Hermes‘ Devotion is a meditation on the bones of the industrial revolution shot on two distinct locations. The first inside a decaying ruin on the bank of the James River in Richmond, Virginia. The second among the dried remains of a dormant waterfall on the Santa Fe River in New Mexico. Hermes’ Devotion revolves around two figures - the outsider / nomad who baits a hook with a mysterious eye and drops the fishing line into the stagnant remains of a giant industrial vat where the pregnant trickster lives hidden in its underworld depths. The work is intentionally arcane, wedding celtic mythology and alchemical symbology in a paradoxical exploration of the artist's search for self as a willingness to know and become the other . . . the nomad is thus an outcast, an unwitting alchemist-fisher-man dredging for illumination in the sterility of a disposable world. Beginning as a simple folktale, the linear narrative is fractured and dismembered, winding back on itself in a dionysian flood of pure image and sound.
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