简介：Forgacs’WittgensteinTractatusiscomposedofsevenshortvideoessaysthatrefertooneofWittgenstein’smostinfluentialworks,TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus,firstpublishedin1921.EachofForgacs’briefessays—setinmotionasatornphotographcomestogether,onlytobreakapartagain—relatestooneofWittgenstein’sphilosophicalpropositions.Blackandwhitehomemoviesfromtheearlytwentiethcenturyareaccompaniedbyvoice-oversandwrittentextsfromTracatus,inHungarianandEnglish,andasomber,lyricalscore.Scenesofbourgeoislifearehauntedbyforebodingsofthefuture.Drawinguponthedisjunctionbetweenlanguageandimage,ForgacscreatesasymbolicillustréationofWittgenstein’stheoriesoflogic,language,realityandrepresentation.…