“Rain is a slow motion reverie which voices the hopes and regrets of adults who have grown into the pictures which awaited them as children.” Esma Moukhtar, Montevideo Catalogue

Sometimes you can hear the sound of beautiful footages crying because they are stranded in unworthy projects, in shrill commercial come-ons, marooned inside throwaway celebrity vehicles. This is a recyling effort, trying to lift the veil of invisibility that overexposure has granted them.

Launched with a few words by Oscar Wilde, the movie resettles in New York City, where a rain drenched late afternoon provides the backdrop for a handful of interior monologues about parents, kids, aging and regret.

“The unprecedented number of competing ideological claims, the sheer volume of other people’s words, that the new mass media made available, was turning character into a kind of cultural ventriloquism. People suffered from other people’s ideas and never recovered themselves. The individual was becoming merely a repertoire of identifiable voices, a collage of new vocabularies. ‘In these times,’ Karl Kraus wrote, ‘you should not expect from me any words of my own. It was an age of unavoidable quotation…” On Flirtation by Adam Phillips

“What is most difficult to uphold is the appropriation and/or depropriation that is not respectful, that takes something without asking and uses or changes it. A conventional ethical view would argue that such appropriation is wrong and that it shows a lack of respect for propriety and for a history which would establish the rights of certain people to exclusive or privileged use of something. But it is precisely this kind of appropriation that is prevalent today, and it is also a kind of appropriation that on occasion has the most fortuitous results. Such an appropriation does not obey laws of ‘cultural exchange,’ and it is usually asymmetrical. But this doesn’t mean it’s used solely by the privileged or powerful on the marginalized and powerless, since it’s also employed by the marginalized and powerless. In the formulation of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, global capital, in its contemporary form of empire, appropriates the wealth of the commons through legal protocols such as patent and copyright registry, by which it establishes ownership. The goal of the multitude – those who are poor because they are denied access to material wealth and the realm of the immaterial that includes ideas, identities – is to reappropriate that wealth.” (In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon)