Synopsis

A mysterious conjurer performs a sustained ritual in an effort to summon a rabbit. The animal eventually appears, but not in the conjurer's own reality. Instead, it manifests in a parallel universe - a provisional realm that can be reached only through the ongoing ceremony. The video turns this simple act of magic into an enigmatic audiovisual meditation on distance, perception, and the unstable relationship between sound and image.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Swamp of the Sound-Image" was released in 2013 and is presented as one of Gary Setzer's video singles.

• The video is connected to Setzer's album "Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain," released through Pretend Records.

• The premise deliberately treats the rabbit's appearance as an event in another reality rather than as a conventional magic trick. This gives the piece a conceptual, performance-art character.

• Setzer's wider practice combines performance art, video, sound, installation, sculpture, and photography. The video reflects that cross-disciplinary approach by treating the music and the visual action as parts of one constructed artwork.

• Setzer has described his work as engaging with language, perception, and the way audiences become entangled with meaning. The video's title and parallel-universe premise fit that continuing interest in the gap between what is heard, what is seen, and what can be understood.