Wind from the East
One or Two Questions for Candice Breitz
David Evans: Are you trying to change the world?
Candice Breitz: I’m trying to be changed by the world.
DE: Is your life a movie?
CB: No.
DE: Are you searching for a new alphabet in the language of cinema?
CB: Absolutely.
DE:Is it good to steal?
CB: It depends what you steal and why.
DE: Is your entire career an assault on the notion of intellectual property?
CB: I like to think there’s a little more to it.
DE: Do you just have two themes: death and the impossibility of love?
CB: Did you take mind-altering drugs between this question and the last?
DE: Or Walt Disney plus blood?
CB: … and have a bad trip?
DE: To show and to show yourself showing – is this a succinct formulation of your fundamental aesthetic?
CB:No.
DE: Are you an entymologist filmmaker?
CB:I’d say I tend more towards etymology than entymology.
DE: Are your films like a battleground – love, hate, action, violence, death. In a single word: emotion?
CB:Are you having a lurid flashback?
DE: Is a good film a matter of questions properly put?
CB:Certainly.
DE:Would you say that you work like an amateur in a professional way?
CB:Yes. I haven’t yet figured out how to work like a professional in an amateur way.
DE:Do you make films on politics or political films?
CB:I do not make films at all.
DE:Are you looking for love through work?
CB:No.
DE:Do you offer a just image or just an image?
CB:Neither of the above.
DE:Is ours the civilization of the ass?
CB:Whose ass do you have in mind Mr. Evans?
DE:Do you prefer Marx or Coca Cola?
CB:Marx: he’s less sticky and more fluid.
DE:Are your films truth 24 frames a second?
CB:I’m terribly sorry to say that I don’t make films.
DE:Do you just need a girl and a gun to make a film?
CB:I really don’t make films!
DE:Why bother with an interview?
CB:I hoped the questions might be more Marx and less Coca Cola….