The way Day - Lewis directs his eyes in «Phantom Thread» shows the journey of a man whose self - identity
shifts over the course of the film, and whose enigmatic, controlled exterior belies volatile emotions.
Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud's writings, with their implications
of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier's groundbreaking 1969 recording «I Am Sitting in a Room»; Erik Satie's looped composition «Vexations»; Marina Abramovic's confrontational performance «Rhythm 0»; Adrian Piper's «Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City»; Herman Melville's short story «Bartleby, the Scrivener»; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary
film First Contact; and
of course the work that most looms
over this topic: John Cage's paradigm -
shifting 1952 composition «4» 33».»