For George Bataille, the figure of the Acéphale (headless being) represented the possibility of emancipation from rational thought, it is a “a being that doesn’t know prohibition. A being that makes me laugh because it is headless, who fills me with anguish because s/he is made of innocence and crime.”

Within ‘To Attempt to Become Other, Secretly or Not’ the Acéphale is caught by the camera, moving awkwardly through a forest at night. It is unaware, or perhaps uninterested, in the camera’s presence, instead it follows a logic of movement that appears strange and (un)reasonable.