The Art of Disappearing (Completely)

I just read a wonderful piece by John Lahr about Cate Blanchett in this week’s New Yorker - “Disappearing Act” - and found this following line remarkable: “The first time Blanchett realized that she might have talent is associated in her mind with this ability to make herself disappear.”

It made me think of the last sequence in Tom Tykwer’s “Heaven,” where a helicopter is taking Blanchett and her partner in the film, Giovanni Ribisi, closer and closer upward to the sky until it finally fades from the screen.

And this song from Radiohead:

How Do Disappear Completely

That there
That's not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's gone
And I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here
I'm not here