Her career has, in some ways, been a succession of self-portraits, but she made a bonafide two-minute one back in 2007, shot in an insomniac fog, then posted on her blog.
Perhaps betraying its drafting-board origins, it's a movie that resolves itself into a succession of self-contained tableaus, as Fairbanks, as the humble thief who must prove himself a prince at heart to win the calilph's daughter (Julanne Johnston), sets out on a series of adventures, each time with the aim of bringing back one of the world's great treasures.
Other commentators, including Marxists, have regarded Kuhn's mechanism as dialectical, as illustrated by the succession of self-undermining developments in the theory of light, from a Newtonian particle theory to a wave theory to a new kind of wave-particle duality.
They argue, instead, that a person is a succession of overlapping selves related to varying degrees by memories, physical continuities, and similarities of character and interests, etc.
But his peace is rudely shattered by a motley succession of visitors: his self-doubting schoolmaster brother; a drunken literary pundit; a breast-baring aspirant author; even an old public school contemporary whose fiancee he has casually seduced.
On the other, the department has lately had a succession of black eyes, some self-administered, from questions about its surveillance of Muslims to, most recently, a video of four officers beating and kicking a drug suspect in the Bronx.
By any reasonable standard, the Sex Pistols would scarcely rate a footnote in the annals of rock 'n' roll: in the 26 months of their existence, they recorded exactly one album, were dropped by a succession of record labels and self-destructed in the course of their only tour of the United States.
Two of the UK's best and hilliest (some connection, surely) marathons were held at the weekend, in Snowdonia and Beachy Head, but for my comeback race after a succession of football injuries (note to self: thou shalt not cross-train) I needed something a little flatter, so naturally I headed to Switzerland.
Two years of National Service in Egypt and a succession of labouring jobs taught him self-preservation and his place in society - a role he was soon to reject in more ways than one.
While Pistorius has mostly retained his self-possession as a succession of neighbours and an ex-girlfriend gave evidence against him, it was the dry, technical language of professor Gert Saayman that hit him hardest.
Surely Cocteau meant it to be: this is his final cinematic statement, as much a long-winded self-analysis as an extraordinary succession of visually arresting images -- in one, Cocteau walks past his doppelganger and angrily denounces him.
