“We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left it is about understanding. Before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on. How does the world actually work. How do human civilisation and institutions actually work. What are they doing? Because, any remedy must be based on what is actually happening in practice. Because, if it is not based on what is actually happening it is based on some kind of fantasy. And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding.”
full transcription located here
[**note on a repeat post; today this raw video was on twitter. as the discussion is so obscured/overpowered by ambient noise i wanted to share the link to the transcription, which i only had saved in this tumblr. but when searching for the post, i found it had completely disappeared. hopefully this was due to a random glitch and not something nefarious…]
[unpolished] transcription here
“We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left it is about understanding. Before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on. How does the world actually work. How do human civilisation and institutions actually work. What are they doing? Because, any remedy must be based on what is actually happening in practice. Because, if it is not based on what is actually happening it is based on some kind of fantasy. And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding.”
jsb:
Björk interviews Arvo Pärt
Two people speaking about his music in the most incredible way.Pärt: I think that sound is a very interesting phenomenon. Why do people like and are so influenced by music? They don’t know how strong the music influences us, good or bad. You can kill people with sound, and if you can kill then maybe there is also the sound which is something opposite of killing, and the distance between these two points is very big, and you are free… you can choose. In art, everything is possible, but everything that is made is not necessary.
Björk: There is question and answer, the different voices in your music, it is almost like Pinnochio and the little cricket. So, one is human and always doing mistake or pain or making pain to others, and the little cricket is more like umm.. comfort him or… do you feel this inside your music or maybe I imagine?
Pärt: I’m very happy that you talk about it… it’s really so. This new style, it consists of two sides so that one line is my sins and another line is forgiveness for these sins. Mostly the music has two voices: one is more complicated and subjective, but another is very simple, clear and objective.
Björk: He really truly believes in such a thing as a divine state, a place of pure ecstacy. Most people achieve it by falling madly in love, or whatever they do to reach that state. What is so brilliant about his music… it’s not about how you got there or why, it’s universal, you know. It’s for everyone.
at john pilger’s website due to his support of assange. in addition to his upcoming ‘the war you don’t see’, he’s made many other films and documentaries. above is an interview he did with costa-gavras in 1983.
"I don’t like people to take my films so seriously, I’m deadly serious about cinema and I feel a responsibility to it every time I pick up a camera, but that’s my role. The audience must fly with me, must go where the images take them. The film, as all good films should be, is rooted in realism, but you must not ignore the poetry, the fiction, the story. Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream."
Jacques Audiard (read the interview here). (via starcrossed)
