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Star Laurie Anderson just can't get down to doing anything creative. Her life has become so full that she has had a clone developed to take over her interviews, write her songs and make her pop videos. The clone, however, takes on a life of its own and begins to develop independent extensions of Anderson's oeuvre. In the end, the clone's life too becomes so busy that it in turn gets a clone made to take over its appointments. And so ad infinitum. This is a clear and humorous exposition of Anderson's views on artificial intelligence and the creation of new life in the form of clones. The basic theme is the question whether clones, modelled on people of flesh and blood, are capable of meaningful relations with the soul of the original. The form chosen for 'What You Mean We?' is borrowed from the optical illusion of the distorting mirror and the use of simple video-techniques lends the construct considerable eloquence.
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Erik Quint
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Scenario, music: Laurie Anderson, Camera: Eddie Marritz, Editing: Melody London, Rick Feist, Sound: William Sarokin, Juan Rodriguez, Production: WGBH/KTCA/CAT Fund, With: Laurie Anderson, Bennie Diggs, Phillip Ballou
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