A relevant and amusing interview with Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist about her new (first) feature film. Includes such reality-bending observations as:
I made some things exaggerated, and some more simple, to make it like a fairy tale. So it's more symbolic. But the message is not only in the story; it's also in the texture, the camerawork, the material, the colors, and in the way of looking. The contradiction you felt is addressing our fears and our censorship in life. Thinking, for example, that we should not love certain people because of what we think they think of us. And while I know we need certain kinds of fears to live together in society, I would like to provoke discussion about which fears are necessary and which we should overcome. Often we have rules in our lives that seem to be givens, but this is not true; everything is constructed. So I tried with this film to question things. But I am also caught in myself. I'm not freer than anybody else.
A relevant and amusing interview with Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist about her new (first) feature film. Includes such reality-bending observations as: