Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323. Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the most talked-about movies released in 2010, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.
Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (2010), was composed as an epithalamium, or matrimonial poem, for Erin Espelie. Bringing together Western Union Telegraphic Code and Francis Bacon’s list of twenty-seven privileged instances from The New Organon (1620), along with passages from the Book of Common Prayer, the film is as stenographic as it is steganographic, a shorthand for the immense and indescribable “instances” that shape a life.
