Edward Picot – Job’s Comforters

Job’s Comforters (2013, 3MB, 7:00 min) Those who associate Edward Picot solely with his marvellous Dr Hairy series, wickedly funny and pointed satire in the kind of lo-fi/hand made tradition that comes down from Postgate and Firmin might be quite … Continue reading →

Job’s Comforters (2013, 3MB, 7:00 min)

Those who associate Edward Picot solely with his marvellous Dr Hairy series,

wickedly funny and pointed satire in the kind of lo-fi/hand made tradition

that comes down from Postgate and Firmin might be quite taken

aback by this. You have to watch the whole thing. Until shortly before the

end you seem to be simply watching a poetic & minimal retelling of a bible

story, then the whole thing suddenly lurches several gears into the kind of

territory that one associates more with Tarr and Kasznahorkai at their most

bleak and disturbing (and somehow their most bracing and exhilarating too).

It’s a punch to the solar plexus of a piece and simply magnificent.

I don’t know where its bleakness comes from or takes us but what it does

en route burns into you.