Ah Pook Is Here (1994)
Directed By Philip Hunt
Narrated By William S. Burroughs
In the scattered remains of a burnt out cosmos, the last god, “AH POOK” debates with his alter ego the trembling balance between life and death. An animated stream of consciousness in Burroughs�s idiosyncratically mesmeric voice breaks delivers us a requiem for the carcasses of Armageddon, nihilistic ramblings of �the last god� searching for meaning in his universe, and finally a bitter manifesto of enlightenment, and liberation.
When I become Death, Death is the seed from which I grow…
Itzama, spirit of early mist and showers.
Ixtaub, goddess of ropes and snares.
Ixchel, the spider web, catcher of morning dew.
Zooheekock, virgin fire patroness of infants.
Adziz, the master of cold.
Kockupocket, who works in fire.
Ixtahdoom, she who spits out precious stones.
Ixchunchan, the dangerous one.
Ah Pook, the destroyer.Hiroshima, 1945, August 6, sixteen minutes past 8 AM.
Who really gave that order?
Answer: Control.
Answer: The Ugly American.
Answer: The instrument of Control.
Question: If Control’s control is absolute, why does Control need to control?
Answer: Control… needs time.
Question: Is Control controlled by its need to control?
Answer: Yes.
Why does Control need humans, as you call them?
Answer: Wait… wait! Time, a landing field. Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
And what does Death need time for?
Answer: The answer is sooo simple. Death needs time for what it kills to grow in, for Ah Pook’s sake.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in, for Ah Pook’s sweet sake, you stupid vulgar greedy ugly American death-sucker.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in, for Ah Pook’s sweet sake, you stupid vulgar greedy ugly American death-sucker… Like this.
We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of abstract forces…
Ah Pook picks up a double-barrel shotgun and opens the breech, where two shells are chambered. It closes the breech.
…who’ve reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers. The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident…
Ah Pook is caressing the shotgun.
…inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a…
Ah Pook puts the shotgun into its mouth, and its voice continues: …vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.
Ah Pook pulls the trigger.
— William S. Burroughs
thanks for this.
Comment by michael — put January 10, 2006 @ 11:21 pm
I had this one as a link to youtube.com, where the video could directly be seen… but not any more… cause it is said that “this video is no longer available”.. could someone be so nice to put it back there…? knows somebody how it works…?
thanks…
Comment by johnmerrick — put June 29, 2006 @ 6:46 am
from: mexÃco
sorry no ingles
I belive is very best
Comment by oliver rubio — put October 31, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
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