Keren Cytter
TRANSCRIPT
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- There is no decision in my movies.
- Then what is focused on is the way we perceive reality.
- We–I–perceive reality.
They are just following the most basic structures of drama.
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Female: Open the window, we need to fake it good.
Male: You look weird.
Female: What do you mean?
Male: You look sad.
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I’m sure you perceive it differently.
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- I think people are just like most seriously
- obsessed about falling in love, competition with friends,
- what’s become of my life—kinds of questions.
The rest is just external.
- I have a very banal choice of dramas.
- It’s because I’m working more on the
- structure of the movie than on who is doing what
or what is the story.
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Your eyes are now free from your mind.
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I try to use the words like music.
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Female: Now shut up, don’t look where my hand is.
Male: Now here I confess, when she entered the room, now entered to fall.
Female: 1, 2, 3, 4
Male: Her moves were like dancing, and her words seemed like singing.
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- I care less about the content,
- less—I still care—but less,
- about the content of the words and more about
- when and how they are said and which words
that will sound like the most undisturbing ones.
I think I’m less an artist and more a language artist.
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Male 1: I can manage people well, I like to produce, and I love dancing.
I mean come on, give me a chance.
Male 2: I will, I will give you a chance.
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- The videos, there’s a lot of repetition in them,
- like image or text or movement or something like that,
- and this is a rhythmic idea that people,
even if they don’t get the story the minute
- some things are repeating themselves,
- they feel more familiar,
- and they agree to watch a bit more.
- So I thought to do the same thing with the space,
- and I think in the space,
- I hope they will get lost a bit,or lose orientation,
- or something like that,
and also maybe feel familiar with it and feel at home.
- The videos that actually reach what I want,
- that people will just enjoy them
- and won’t notice what’s going on
- or the plot but still would like the follow it,
because there is a sense of this story.
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