The Fruits Of Passion (1983) ‘A Surrealish Thing’ written and directed by Russell Senior. Performed by The Wicker Players: Jarvis Cocker, Magnus Doyle, Tim Allcard, Ellie Ford and Steve Faben. Included musical interludes performed by Russell, Jarvis and Magnus.
“It was kind of Zurich 1919 revolutionary, very much inspired by Dada,” says Russell. “The idea was that people would either walk out in disgust or stay to the end and think it was really cool, and the people who’d stay would be the people who we’d start the socialist revolution with … ”
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the subconscious of each. And none of them are unaware of the existence of the world of the forces that awaken in man hidden until the time of the dark side of their personalities. The metaphor of the film is laid bare hidden from direct view the laws of nature to be reckoned with, are unaware of their presence, man
The film conveys the unique color of the first years of perestroika, when dreams are not in conflict with reality, and belief in the bright future of the country was not something unrealizable, Although the whole mood of the film prophesies about something inevitable and irrevocable.
“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What’s so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak state, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inwards from the world at large?”
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
Nov 26 2022
We all know the Hero’s Journey and the Villain’s Arc…..
I’d like to request an Anti-Hero Experience for 2023. I feel it’d be a bit more productive.
So I found the best video on YouTube. It is a VHS recording of Marie Osmond on Ripley’s Believe it or Not introducing Dadaism, the avant-garde literary and artistic movement from early 20th century Europe. That’s enough for me frankly, but skip to 1:30 to see her recite the nonsense poem “Karawane,” and, like, omg it’s actually a truly amazing recitation. I’m kinda blown away.
