Echolalia

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Robert Arnold

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

1 January 2003

Ensemble

Cast

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  George W. Bush

  Self

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  Ari Fleischer

  Self

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  John Ashcroft

  Self

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  Tony Blair

  Self

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  Tariq Aziz

  Self

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  Colin Powell

  Self

• Richard Butler

  Self

• Jeremy Greenstock

  Self

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  Suzanne Malveaux

  Self

• John Negroponte

  Self

• Victoria Clarke

  Self

• Paul Wolfowitz

  Self