(2 duplicate DVD copies of video) Monologue of Dr. F. It is a self portrait, connecting to Faust and to my doctorate. Faust is complaining about being too academic, what I did here and took the same music from ‘Trans Europe Express’ and I made a free translation, rap like, to the monologue of Faust. Its more rap music and my own translation, a self portrait hidden within Dr. Faust. I put in his mouth all of the bad dirty things about academia that have no worth. I played on the word ‘die’ and with the Hebrew meaning which is ‘enough’. The visual remix is excluded because it is from my husband’s collage. It’s a video piece with all the credits written. It’s made up of a variety of visual ‘ready mades’ from films, nature films, from euro sport. The content is not illustrated by the video pieces although it fits and enriches the meaning. While I say I am fed up with learning, and they see a trained horse and think that it is the speech of the horse.

Note (by Edward Miner): Efrat and Jacob Mishori made this rap version of Faust’s monologue (from “The Tragedy” in Faust: Part One), set to Kraftwerk, for the Goethe Institute.