Yoni Goldstein
The Recognitions
An adaptation of an excerpt from William Gaddis’s 1955 novel of the same name by director Geoff Hughes. In line with the author’s intent, this narrative short criticizes frivolity in a world haunted by loss and filled with losers.
“There is here everything imaginable in the way of confusion, darkness and horror… I know from personal experience that in this place there is neither piety nor charity. Faith is absent; there is nothing holy, nothing just, nothing human. Friendship, modesty and decency are unknown. Houses drip with lies. The hope of a future life is considered an illusion; virtue is regarded as a proof of stupidity, and prostitution leads to fame.” — Petrarch, from his letters, Sine Titulo.
Credits
Director – Geoff Hughes
Director of Photography – Yoni Goldstein
Camera – Yoni Goldstein and Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon