'Last seen Floating Along Unnoticed in the Broad Stream of Perception' (or fruit salad)
Ranu's edit, shot by Suzie Karakashian, Ranu Mukherjee, Maggie Roberts, Erle Stenberg
DVD, 7:32 loop - single channel video- 2008

Last Orphan Drift meeting in Europe (Ibiza 2002). Title borrowed from Jonathan Lethem's essay 'Ecstasy of Influence; A Plagiarism Mosaic' borrowed from Christian Keathley (Cinephilia and History or Wind in the Trees) borrowed from Walter Benjamin.

"The surrealists understood that photogrpahy and cinema could carry out this reanimating process automatically; the process of framing objects in a lens was often enough to create the charge they sought. Describing the effect, Walter Benjamin drew a comparison between the photographic apparatus and Freuds psychoanalytic methods. Just as Freud's theories had "isolated and made analyzable things which had heretofore floated along unnoticed in the broad stream of perception, " the photographic apparatus focuses on "hidden details of familiar objects' revealing" entirely new structural formations of the subject"