MORE: a short video

January 22, 2025 Mitchell Stephens

Is enough indeed enough? This less-than-3-minute-long video experiment argues—with help from Leonard Cohen, William Blake, Ecclesiastes and Anaïs Nin—that it is not, that we ought indeed to ask for MORE.

Indeed this short video itself— with highly animated text and multi-layered audio—represents an effort to show that video might be able to say MORE—an argument I first made a quarter century ago in my book, the rise of the image the fall of the word. Can’t say the evidence I was right has been pouring in, but there are glimmerings. . . .