Cover title. "116-page offset lithographic book, recounting a two-year attempt to invoke life in an inanimate effigy of Luis Buñuel for 2.3 seconds, via modification of mechanisms ordinarily designed to take life + a corpus."--Cover. Printed in an "Edition of 1,000".
Contents:
Poetics of Failure -- Invocation -- Apparition -- Velocity -- Studies Shirt #1 -- Suspension -- Range 7 -- To whom it may concern -- 6,595 Files -- Failed Drawing -- A Corpus.
Summary:
A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet documents Rick Myers' attempt to complete a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel: to create a bullet possessing such a weak charge that it would simply bounce off the filmmaker's shirt when fired at him. Consulting with the estate and sources ranging from online forums for bullet makers to a ballistics lab associated with the United States Secret Service, Myers sought to make the bullet and fire it at a shirt that had been worn by Buñuel. While trying to bring this absurdist endeavor to completion, the artist was met with a colorful cast of characters and failures at almost every turn. A Bullet for Buñuel has taken many forms - a video work, a multiple, and a performative lecture - all of which are represented in this publication. Myers' writing, research, correspondence, and photographs are also included in the book, which synthesizes years of work into a singular meditation on the poetics of failure.-from Printed Matter.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.