“It is impossible to legislate taste, and if it were possible, it would be repugnant. There are no commandments in art and no easy axioms for art appreciation. ‘Do I like this?’ is the question anyone should ask themselves at the moment of confrontation with the picture. But if ‘yes’, why ‘yes?’ and if ‘no’, why ‘no’? The obvious direct emotional response is never simple, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ has nothing at all to do with the picture in its own right”.
Jeanette Winterson, Art [Objects]
I guess KB makes films to trick reality into revealing itself (aka capturing Subliminal Reality)… I was thinking about these tags (extracted from the trailers):
AN OFFBEAT FILM
POI – KB’s POINT OF VIEW
A POIGNANT FILM
LOVE NEEDS A MASK
LOVE THE OTHER SIDE OF “LIES”
FORMULAS ARE BROKEN STILL POIGNANT
POI FULL OF LOVES & LIES
A POEM CALLED POI
new WINE in OLD BOTTLE
A person is walking along the shore and finds an old wine bottle. Three options:
(1) Throw it back into the sea
(2) Ignore the bottle
(3) Take the bottle home
Takes the bottle back home and finds a message. Turns on the lamp (i.e. mind) and trys reading it. The message first seems strange and disturbing, but soon it appears to be - A cry for help ???
Poet Osip Mandelstam once wrote:
Why shouldn’t the poet turn to his friends, to those who are naturally close to him?
At a critical moment, a seafarer tosses a sealed bottle into the ocean waves, containing his name and a message detailing his fate. Wandering along the dunes many years later, I happen upon it in the sand. I read the message, note the date, the last will and testament of one who has passed on. I have a right to do so. I have not opened someone else’s mail. The message in the bottle was addressed to its finder. I found it. That means, I have become its secret addressee.
Thus Poi is for all of us who read and enjoy poems…
