Lacrimosa: Walt Whitman & Desire

Kenneth J. Harvey

Canada / 2022 / Experimental / 7’7”I2300471

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SYNOPSIS

"Lacrimosa" based on a poem by Walt Whitman. "Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet" Whitman, seemingly ashamed of his sexuality, perhaps felt that the only way his shame could be released was through the spilling of blood. Shame pulsed through his body, tainted his writing, to be discharged and “stain every page.” The bones protruding through the flesh as t

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