Elemental 7
Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti & John Lacey, UK, 1983, 59 Min
All pieces were composed and played by Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and John Lacey, recorded in 1982 and completed in 1983
Each piece from this video is a story in itself, each saying something different. The music was recorded specifically with each piece in mind, the visual came first. It is not a ‘pop promo’ video
Video production is within anyone’s reach, the only limit being your imagination
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
