“The blood thing is the only thing you really have to know to understand capitalism. The Vampire can’t act without the blood, and he can’t keep it. He doesn’t feed on the blood in a way that he would ever be full. He’s thirsty all the time. Because, as you know, he’s already dead.”
– ‘On Blood and Wings. A Study in the Dark Side of Cooperation’
For those of you who appreciated my post on Christoph Spehr & Jörg Windszus’ On Rules and Monsters (2004), here’s the “sequel”, produced in 2006. It’s about the multitude battling capitalism. Giving a vampire twist to Marx in unveiling the crucial mechanism of capitalism (“to make more and more blood out of blood”), it shows the problems of the Multitude fighting the vampires to conquer capitalism towards a free and just society. The video is compiled of footage from a dozen different vampire movies, by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Robert Wiene, Paul Morrissey, Patrick Lussier, Stephen Summers, Michael Rymer, Terence Fisher, Michael Sellers, Len Wiseman, Abel Ferrara and Tommy Lee Wallace. Just like in ‘On Rules and Monsters’ the narration is by Tony Conrad. The clip can be downloaded here, the full transcipt is here.