"I know that somewhere here
this is a homage some where" is a mixed media appropriation designed to be
streamed via a web browser. It combines the opening seqeunce of Welles' "Citizen
Kane" with text from Nelson's "Literary Machines". This intertwingling
reverberates in all sorts of ways, simply in their being drawn together. Kane's
mansion (never finished) was Xanadu, and of course Coleridge's poem "Kubla
Khan" was the result of a vision that was never able to be realised. Yet
from within these impossible visions (which is probably also a rather apt way
of considering Welles' life as a film maker) great works have been produced. There
are other, more complex layers - for instance Citizen Kane's narrtive structure
as memory palace, the film's appropriation of other discourses (newsreel, radio,
literature), its play between the linear temporality of cinema and the nonlinearity
of its flashback structure - but these are less explicit than the simple corollaries
between Xanadu, Coleridge, Welles and Nelson.