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Fake interviews. Let's go outside ourselves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One day I thought of filming me and my fellow friends artists in the MFA1.

 

Why? Probably the inspiration came from my childhood or my teens when I usually played by doing fake interviews or fake shows with relatives and friends.

 

This activity meant warmth, it meant some relationship between the people which were doing this. I like this idea.

Why?

When we started to do fake funny videos in our class, I understood that filmimg something like a fake action needs that you come out of yourself.

 

 

 

 

The project is something about friendship, but it is also something about playing with ourself, our social cages.

As regard as this last aspect, in fact we play with a genre which is the art review or culturalinterview.

 

But going out of ourself  also means doing a psycho-emotional exercise in abandone our ego.

As regard as this I was thinking of how much contemporary society often come to egocentric and auto referencial dynamic or in the "selfish".

 

What we have done:

 

I started by working with Jasmir Creed and Natasha Sabatini. Since the first attempt which was a video on Jasmire’s painting “The Commuter”, Anastasia Hokhryakova joint our group. We slightly became a organised group after doing a quite successful brief video on Jasmire’s painting, being in three: me, Natasha and Anastasia.

 

The second video we decided to do was on Anastasia’s painting. This time I decided to plan a little bit more the interview by creating a script.I had the opportunity to talk with Anastasia about her life and this random talking was inspirational for some jokes I put in the fake interview.

 

I imagined myself as a conductor/interviewer of the column “A couple of questions” of the show “Art today and everyday”. And I asked Natasha to be the filmaker, Jasmir to be a collegue-journalist-speaker during the show. She had to read a brief biography of Anastasia.

 

Anastasia did not know about the content of the script, so her reactions could be impredictable and more funny. This was a key point for the good result of the interview.

 

Here some pictures of the second interview and the script of the first one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The script

Pravda

 

Yellowblue pravda

dobra utro druk

tuonsky abetrij peinta Anastasia

nuovadruoci ninschi

Nijinsky, Mussorsky

Stravinsky

Anastasia Khokhryalcova!

 

 

Applauso fuori campo zum – su presentatrice e Anastasia

 

INIZIO

 

I would like to present my good friend and popular artist Anastasia, in russian and to the russian people of London. Did you liked that?

 

Well, before to start your interview, another surprise: our great collegue … prepares a brief documentary which will introduce the painter of today!

 

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Applauso fuori e in campo.

Faccia soddisfatta della presentatrice

 

Let's do a cupple of questions.

 

Why do you use so many colours in your paintings? There is some connection between your canvas and Picasso's Le demoiselle d'Avignon?

 

 

Thank you very much

 

Thanks to lovely audience of “A coupple of questions” which today was dedicated to the painter Anastasia.

 

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