THE INTIMATE TAPES

Video narration without video by Douglas Davis

... the lover's discourse is today of an extreme solitude. This discourse is spoken. perhaps. by thousands of subjects (who knows?), but warranted by no one; it is completey foresaken by the surrounding languages: ignored, disaparaged, or derided by them, severed not only from authority but also from the mechanisms of authority (sciences, techniques, arts) ...

[ Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discosure: Fragments, 1977 ]