The Banquet

The Banquet 2004 — risd
Shown at the Last Supper Film Festival | New York | 2007

We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of the ritual — first the magical. then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the authentic work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value.

— Walter Benjamin

Interpretation: The Banquet is a narrative exploring the convergence of identity and chance with text from Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes this World. It was also an opportunity to commune with absurdity in the form of the last supper.