Marginal Waters
Doug Ischar



Forget Him
2009
7 minutes
Single-channel video

"Forget Him" is based on a single reel of Super-8 footage found by the artist in a Chicago flea market in 1990. Based on hair and clothing styles, it appears to date back to 1965. The original order of the reel has been preserved, only playback speeds have been altered. Ischar has made two minimal additions to this footage: 1) a text from Walter Benjamin's "One Way Street" (1928) and 2) a section from Heinrich Schutz' "Symphoniae Sacrae I" (1629). The Schutz uses an ambiguously homoerotic Latin text from "Song of Solomon." "Forget Him" is intended both as a stand-alone video and as a present-day reflection on the photographs of "Marginal Waters."