LAST MAN IN DHAKA CENTRAL [2015]
When he talks about pausing his Ph.D. fieldwork to become the unofficial archivist of the group, there is a cut in the interview.
After a break of a few minutes, he resumes.
Perhaps that was our one mistake: producing so many copies.
I’m thinking of something else. I’m thinking of John Reed, documentarian of the Russian revolution.
John wrote to Max.
Don’t tell anybody where I am. I’m writing the Russian revolution in a book.
I wish I could have been Max. I might have thought to warn John. You could still turn back, do it all over again.
But we never get the chance really, to do it again.
Last Man in Dhaka Central, Experimenter, Frieze London, Fall 2014. Supported by a Creative Time Global Residency in Netherlands.
At Frieze, a few notes from a possible future film are on display: fragments of a newspaper series investigating the 1975 failed uprising (the 7th November “Sepoy Mutiny” was the third coup of that year), and the Dutch press campaign for his release.