An extremely influential artist in the strange world of performance art, Bas Jan Ader never completed his final piece "in search of the miraculous" where he set sail to do a west-east crossing of the atlantic and went missing at sea. I suppose this fate contains some sort of horrible irony. But I feel the mystery behind what happened keeps his idea's alive. Other famous works include fall I and fall II. He concentrates a lot on the idea of falling... these films make me feel unstable almost. Maybe it's waiting for the fall that makes the viewer so uncertain when watching.
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