KiNo vs. People – Part 1
Released On: April 21, 2008
Poet of sound & image KiNo conducts an impromptu interview with the New Yorkers on Wall street at the financial district.
KiNo collaborator Jennifer Armstrong conducted the interviews, while Karina Correa filmed.
Produced & edited by KiNo for the NBC pilot programme.
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Hello, interesting place you have here. May I ask whether the questions you ask in the ‘Kino vs People’ interviews are random free association, or do they have specific intent.. that is, are they meant in terms of questionnaire or just to provoke an emotional or thoughtful jolt? I was slightly taken aback to hear the attractive interviewer describe the United States as ‘dominating the world’.. but then I suppose we British are guilty of a certain insular perspective too.
I very much like the visual style of this short, it’s refreshing to see an american city shot without bright ‘Friends’ colourful sunlight. More ‘kitchen sink’, than high gloss suits my cine-soul. David Lynch may despair at films played on i-phones ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 ) but Inland Empire’s digital rawness showed a natural embrace of the anarchic Newwave and the growing digital revolution.
By the by, thought I’d pass on the link to a wonderful collection of online avant-garde films & such – http://www.ubu.com/
Very interesting work you’re doing. I look forward to seeing more of your rather cool short films.
chaplin aka Verdoux
Hello Monsenior Verdoux,
I was most delighted to receive your visit and comment on this screen, over my end.
Map of the Universe is the concept that houses my every effort to disseminate the arrival of the collective Revolution of the Mind.
What that is, of course, depends on the potential of the viewer, audience, the listener, the man on the street,
as I occupy myself with the communication of the most essential situation in life over and over again in every possible form of it’s expression,
and that is the human condition mangled between our being and doings, the body and soul, in other words, the truth.
It’s precisely, this insular perspective as you so deftly put it, which I would like to dissolve in order to reveal the obscurities
that have separated people. Today, the degeneration of most human abilities automatically begets the criticism of able individuals.
My job as a poet is to confirm that what they feel and know already are the same thing and therefore unify this awareness.
At any rate, map of the universe is a system on which any given thing, from a concept to a tool, can be set as a departure point to illustrate it’s journey and origin which for sure gets linked to the human form, since everything we created is an extension of our own self.
So, it’s not at all about mapping the cosmos, but mapping every aspect of the human existence from the perspective of a mirror.
That mirror is conscience and I believe a poet is the application of this higher form of conscience, because he can stand in front of philosophers, artists, politicians and others to effect life from it’s root to the tip of every leaf, there are countless poets at work unaware of who they are, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters.
if you will this is the front door to the whole thing, where you may find the beginning and it’s first presentation.
http://www.kinomapoftheuniverse.com
I have just completed the record, by which I am hoping to sneak in this content into popular culture through my persona,
to engage with people. I know we are seeking each other.
And lastly, I am also chuffed to end up on the site that features your work. I think you are doing a brilliant job,
Your writing outshines the reviews of sight and sound!
My educational background is in film studies.
p.s. ubu is my backyard also where so many friends play and play…
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