sucking on words

Synopsis

sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also features critical commentary on his intense and ground-breaking conceptualist practice from three of North America’s leading voices on avant-garde poetics. Shot on location in New York in 2007, the lively conversations featured in sucking on words are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith’s witty and provocative works, which are already regarded as hallmarks of 21st-century literature. The film showcases readings from some of his notorious books: No.111 (found phrases ending in the ‘r’ rhyme and filtered alphabetically by syllable count); Soliloquy (a transcription of every word Goldsmith spoke for a week); Day (a retyping of one day’s New York Times newspaper); Traffic (one day’s worth of hourly radio traffic bulletins); and The Weather (one year’s worth of radio weather bulletins).

Main Cast

Kenneth Goldsmith

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Robert Fitterman

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Barbara Coles

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Bruce Andrews

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Lighting	Lighting Technician	Jarrod Fowler Fiona Biggiero Jerome Harmann-Hardeman
Directing	Director	Simon Morris
Crew	Sound Recordist	Fiona Biggiero Jerome Harmann-Hardeman Jarrod Fowler
Editing	Editor	Christine Morris
Sound	Music	Rob Lavers
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