Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel – Why Should I Buy a Bed When All That I Want Is Sleep? (1999)

Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep?

The American minimalist poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) is praised for his originality and spirituality. He was a companion of the painter Ad Reinhardt and the religious philosopher and monk Thomas Merton, who had a strong influence on the poets of the beat generation. After decades of a nomadic life between America and Europe, working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, as a film critic in New York and as a clown in an Italian itinerant circus, he has lived withdrawn for 30 years on the Greek island of Patmos. In his poetry, Robert Lax pursues a maximum compression of language – to the point where only individual words and syllables remain which represent the essence of language. His artistic concept of reduction, in which a pause becomes as important as the things said, makes Lax a kindred spirit of the American composer John Cage. The present films are the outcome of a long-standing friendship between Robert Lax and the filmmakers Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.

Why Should I Buy a Bed.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	53mn 16s
Size: 	774 MiB
Video
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Resolution: 	688x574 ~> 978x574
Aspect ratio:  	1.704
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Bit rate: 	1 800 Kbps
BPP: 	0.182
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https://nitro.download/view/396EF9A8D5C5DE8/Lax_Readings.mkv

Language(s):English, Greek
Subtitles:English, German