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Kent Beeson is a Classic & An Absolutely New Thing

Single-channel video. 12 minutes. 2001. Performed by Kent Beeson.

A spiraling comical and desperate monologue, exploring one man's ambitions of showbiz affluence. The common-place dream of exaggerated success and wealth crumbles as the performer becomes more and more flustered, struggling to get through the text he has poorly memorised. Shot on a single camera and in endlessly repeated takes, the completed work shows Kent in a series of different locations, addressing the camera directly, moving between frustration and laughter, stumbling through the text, looping back on his lines, and making comments on his own performance.