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The Table (2004)

Original title: Laud

Animation Duration 20:20

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In memoriam
Tadeusz Kantor

SUMMARY.
LETHAL ANARCHISM

This is an one part of MA degree work. The other parts are the puppet animation „Table“ (2004) and Jelena Girlin's work. This particular piece of the writing contains several essays, wich are all in some points discuss about the human personality as the puppet on a theatre stage of the personal universum. /---/

I talk about the death, because it is the only certain and immutable event in everybody's life. It will come anyway. So I describe Tadeusz Kantor's the theatre of death and it's manifestation. And also Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty. „I am more and more strongly covinced that the concept of LIFE can only be brought back to art by the LACK OF LIFE in the conventional sense.“
I also talk about my personal experiences and carry-overs. Sometimes they are given in the form of diary and sometimes as the piece of novel. All has been done in the hope to reach something touching and deap. Some of these events has taken place several years ago, when we, Girlin Bassovskaja, started our first film together. Some of these were recently happened and some of them are still continuing.
I describe quite exactly how we became together and gave away the satisfaction of being an independent person. I give some first impressions of the birth of „The Table“ and the description of the characters. I talk about the marriage and death in the empirical way like at first I described these subjects in theoretical way.
How hard it is to be woman and same time the artist. But still it is very important to avoid the formal filling of the quota of sexes. We must avoid the mechanical equality. To woman, thanks to her female aggressivity, it should be more difficult task than man. Because she must cut through her idiomaticalness of her body. She must defence herself against these idiomaticalness, but even more against herself, who has all her definitions and laws, which dictate everything. The woman must do everything to be more a human being than a female creature, so that she would not collapse under her own heaviness.
The point of the whole work is, that everyone makes his laws himself and it is not very clever to blame on somebody else if you are like you are at the present moment in the present situation.
If somebody thinks, that the world needs the saving and the big changes, then actually he himself needs to change. It is much important to deal with own problems than to solve the other's.

Letaalanarhism.: Letaalanarhism, http://letaalanarhism.blogspot.dk/2010/10/proov.html (18.03.2015).

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