The Wisdom Of Silenus 2018 - by Ben Bickford

Film + Soundtrack by Ben Bickford Originally shown at the Rubix exhibition at Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London 'What is the best and most desirable thing for man?’ ...So fragt der letzte Mensch und blinzelt – ‘Oh, wretched ephemeral race, children of chance and misery, why do ye compel me to tell you what it were most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is beyond your reach forever: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you – is quickly to die’