Jacqueline and I have decided to create a new version
of HAG. HAG, of course, is my first multimedia “novel,” a piece
of work which drags a long history with it. Originally it was to be a prose
novel—then a prose novel with many, many photos—then an “animated”
prose novel, designed for the internet—and finally the incarnation I
actually finished, some ten years later: HAG as multimedia, video and sound
and animation, published on CD.
The novel always suffered from a lack of center, shall I say. For a work about
the muse, it did not have a muse as its inspiration. Instead, I struggled
to put it together, fragment by fragment, using actresses both in the U.S.
and Mexico. But now, of course, I have Jacqueline as the central inspiration
for all my work. She appeared in my life, in Aguascalientes, just as I was
finishing HAG, and in fact she is included in its finale. However I often
wondered what the HAG would have been like if I’d met Jacqueline sooner.
Well, one day, discussing this, it suddenly seemed obvious what I should do—not
entirely recreate the novel, but heavily revise it: use Jaqueline for the
beginning and ending, wrapping it, so to speak, in her arms. I have also acquired,
at long last, a digital camcorder—all my previous video work used an
Olympus still camera with QuickTime functionality, that is, a 320x240, 15
fps format. I can now do full screen work, and put it all together not as
a CD but DVD, so it can be played on televisions as well as computers.
So we begin. Bits and pieces will appear here, suitably compressed for the
internet, as we do them, both video and still photos. Click the following links
for samples. The original CD version is still available, designed for Windows
computers, for those who want it. See below for details.
