"The wealthy scientist Martial Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, Locus Solus, where he displays his various deranged inventions: a machine propelled by the weather, which constructs a mosaic out of varying hues of human teeth; a hairless cat charged with a powerful electric battery; a bizarre theater in which corpses are reanimated with a special serum to enact the most important movements of their past lives. Wondrously imaginative and narrated with Roussel’s deadpan wit, Locus Solus is unlike anything else ever written. ...”
YouTube: Locus Solus 4:06:20
2009 September: Raymond Roussel, 2012 January: The Tropological Space of Locus Solus, 2015 August: Galerie Buchholz, 2018 June: The Accidental Avant-Gardist
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