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If it was up to David Blair, 'Wax ...' will be seen in the future as a dizzying vision of the 'electronic cinema' that awaits us in the coming years and not as the idiosyncratic phenomenon that at present leaves the viewer baffled. 'Wax ...' is crammed full of ideas, both in the way in which Blair tells a story and also in the design which is as ingenious as it is playful. 'Wax ...' has as many layers of information, fiction and fantasy as the number of different techniques that it combines. The involving story lines refer to the work of Pynchon and Burroughs, but the images betray a fascination with the mass media. Blair also uses numerous style forms and proves to be an expert in the manipulation of information transfer. 'Wax ...' tells the story of Jacob Maker who works in New Mexico for the American weapons industry. But Jacob also keeps bees. His hives are full of 'Mesopotamian' bees, inherited from his grandfather. He gets to know their secret world and the bees transport him via the past to a dead future. Ultimately Jacob ends up in Basra in the Iraq of 1991. There a heavy task awaits him.
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Erik Quint
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Camera: Mark Kaplan,
Light: Leighton Edmondson,
Editing: David Blair, Florence Ormezzano,
Sound and Music: Beo Morales, Brook Williams,
With: David Blair, Meg Savlov, Florence Ormezzano, William Burroughs, Father Bessarion, Dr Clyde Tombaugh,
Script reading: Rick Allen, Terese Svoboda,
Production: ZDF/Carl Ludwig Rettinger, David Blair
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