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There is some attachment to identity and there's a fear that the identity one day will be finished, and that this will be the end of you. You think that you're alive only when Consciousness is functioning, but you are not alive in the cognitive state only.

On April 9th 2009, maverick video-maker and self-professed ‘outsider' Arkhip Ippolitov failed in his bid to commit suicide. The investigation that followed revealed a man on the fringes of sanity who had all but erased his identity in favour of living out his life as a fictional character; a character doomed from the outset. Most curious however is that the process of his breakdown was documented and released in the form of the award-winning motion picture ‘Goliadkin'. This documentary, produced in association with The Institute of Film and Video Studies, Copenhagen, attempts to discern fact from myth and make sensible the question: ‘Who is Arkhip Ippolitov?' “It is ironic that he [Ippolitov] chose to appropriate the character of Dostoevsky's Goliadkin as his own, for this is a character driven to desperation by the strange and sudden appearance of his Doppelganger. It is doubly curious when we consider the circumstances of his suicide, his towering resentment toward the success of his movie and the tragic codicil he sought to execute against himself. But what is by far most uncanny is that this movie is a record of his self-destruction and that we, the audience, are capable of taking pleasure in the spectacle.” Tomas Blauveldt Video-Critic and Lecturer, Department of Unscientific Research The Institute of Film and Video Studies, Copenhagen

2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.

Gus Van Sant's 1st project was a short based on the William Burroughs' essay Do Easy. "DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE."  William Burroughs.