Please welcome, Bruce LaBruce!
You know, I really hate red carpets. I think they are really bourgeois and elitist,
but, if any film deserved a red carpet, it was this this ooone.
I'm going to let the movie speak for itself, and we'll talk to you afterwards.
Thanks to the Berlinale, thanks to Panorama, and hope you enjoy the film.
To me it was… I was very nervous, because it was my first sex in a movie,
and with a woman, and with 8 women, so it was very… nerve-raking. But it was very good that we've got to talk before.. I don't know...
remember who said it but someone said "I don't want anyone to touch my feet".
You know, I started as a punk in the 80's where um.. the one rule of punk was that...
the idea was to express your politics or your believes through style,
because it's more... it's more powerful in a way because you're not articulating it in an obvious way -
it's just something that you kind of present for other people to figure out.
(So what are your three rules for films you don't watch?)
The first rule which I established firmly for myself after watching many dozens of films
is not to watch films made by women.
He normally calls it girlie films.
All my attemts to do so have ended in a disaster, exept for one film.
There was only one film made by a woman that I was able to watch to the end. No, actually two.
(Oh, look, so if we dig deeper...)
The first one is Cinderella, and the other one is Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola.
(So, why did you smuggle me into the boring electronic music party of Trainspotting without the music from the movie as you promised?)
I did not promise such a thing, I don't know why... I don't know, it's not my fault, I didn't DJ it.
Apparently Goldie was there.
(The question is why you're wearing that panda onesie?)
I thought as this is my 10th anniversary at the Berlinale, it's time to finally let it go, stop thinking,
how exactly you should look and do your little bear dance in a bear costume.
Actually if you run, then you're really hot, so it keeps the temperature depends on how much...
(So were you're saying is that you're quite sweaty underneath?)
Nah, this is too much!
(What is?)
What's the story behind this?
(We just..)
Tell me. How long have you been wearing it?
(The whole day.)
The whole day?
There are interviews about films that are relevant for the films, and there are interviews
that will be relevant after ten or twenty years, whether it's for the good or for the bad.
So these are the ones I'm starting to chase. Continue chasing. Always chase.
I haven't. I haven't actually fallen asleep in a film.
(How many years you've been going to Berlinale?)
Twenty one.
(I have a very important question, crucial for me. What do you do not to get bored with coming to the festival?)
It's not boring, I mean how can you say that, you know, it's… it's like we're not plucking chickens in a factory,
I mean what do you do, you come to a festival, you go to movies,
you talk to interesting people,
or at least you hope they're going to be interesting or you can make them interesting,
you can draw their interesting side out...
(Right.)
And then if you're lucky and you've got some time you go out and you have a nice meal or some drinks, what's boring there?
You have to have courage in your culture and in your life, otherwise why be alive unless you have the possibility to live freely and
to deal with repression in a creative way to subvert the powers that are trying to make you less then human.
And the more you do it, the more you inspire other people to do it.
Everybody who has done something significant or that meant something for other people is afraid.
So it's not not to be afraid, It's to be afraid but to know what to do with that feeling and how to transform fear into something
productive and something… that can change stuff.
So it was today on the way home that I've finally come up with the
concept for my, hopefully, future book.
So I am grateful to Albert for standing behind my back, saying:
"Go on, off you pop to Berlin. It's important and it's useful"
He had no Idea how important and useful it was, but he was absolutely right.
You write a film, and the film must fulfill some criterias.
(Right.)
Rhetorically, we can bend those criterias, towards that we want.
(How can you describe a good film?)
Make me cry, make me laugh, I'm being really selfish..
Doesn't break the song. A film is a song. The wave. And if you're wrong, you break the song.
[Hi, I'm American, how do you do?
I loved you and my love may still be there, Deep in my soul remains to stay aglow. Bye!]
... so Suslov is there, some other Politbureau member as well, the projector comes on.
Again, it' s all happening in a sacred conference hall, and whst they see is some guy jumping on top of the sacred podium, yelling:
"I am filming myself and you can go fuck yourself".
Which is the genre that has become surprisingly popular lately.
Today we have the real spring, which means that I can't stop crying like a baby.
I had my first or maybe second militarist nightmare, where people made us come off a train, started questioning and inspecting us.
And now I'm off to see a film about Tangerine Drem and do an interview with LaBruce.
So it's happened afterall and I fell asleep in a film that I'd been looking forward to see, the one about Tangerine Dream.
I can't tell one day from another, can't tell which interviews I've made,
which films I saw and when...
I've just finished the interview with Bruce LaBruce
I didn't have a second to think to turn on the camera or at least to take a photo together or anything,
I had so many questions that I thought I wouldn't have time for all of them,
which I of course haven't, so no more films today.
I must say, LaBruce is a really interesting guy.
Oh, I'm so hungry, I'll go eat.
Alcohol-free beer. For those who miss the taste.
This is the Bella Mama burger, made by an Irish punk vegetarian cook.
Mm, time to eat.
(This year, I think, or the end of the last year there were 30 years of British punk rock or the Britain sort of celebrated something like that.
(What do you think, is there anything to celebrate, because I've heard different opinions.)
People who were punks celebrate punk every day.
Maybe it's nice to look at some old stuff that you haven't seen before if you're of a certain age.
But for… that particular thing, that was a state-sponsored, government approved celebration of what they call the punk-era.
The punk era doesn't exist.
Punk era only existed for music magazines and journalists
when they felt that it past, which it didn't.
(Tell me what was the lamest part of the interview I just did with you guys?)
- Oh, the start, meeting you, really.. - The sweaty hands.
Yeah, it's was just exhausting, there wasn't one particular moment, it was the entirety, it was just lame. Really lame.
I'm… yeah, I'm not even saying anything.
- She's in agreeance. - That's how horrible it was.
- Nothing at all, it was a delight.
(Thank you so much!)
(What are you doing?)
I get condoms, for people who want them, do you want them?
(Give me a condom, I will share it with friends.)
Oh, hello!
(Hello.)
Did she paint your face as well too?
(No, I did it myself.)
Oh, wonderful.
My name is Bef Stroganoff. I'm from the gay museum.
I used to be in 80's drag fashion… the so called drag store, we did big fashion shows.
(People who were sitting next to me while we were watching the ceremony were curious if you are a son of…)
Freddy Mercury?
(Exactly.)
No, I'm not, I hear it a lot, I know.
(If a person has never been to Berlin. What would be 3 things, 3 reasons to go there?)
At first - Berlin is the most interesting town for individuals, for not looking after fashion, but be yourself.
(I have to ask what you're doing here? With this..)
(Thanks.)
(Did you forgive me all my sins? Twice.)
(If I, for example, want to record one good song for the first time in my life, what would be three things that I shouldn't do not to make a big mistake?)
You can do anything.
And only later it turns out if it was a mistake or not, so I can't really tell you.
(I like 70's, I like music from the 70's, and I want you.. you to tell me what is the best thing that I missed by being born 14 years later?)
"Je t'aime... moi non plus".
(I love that song. Thank you, thank you so much!)
After ten days of the festival I kiked to films, on of them is German and the other on is German.
One is German and Finnish, the other one is German and Ukrainian.
The first, the German and Finnish one, is called The Other Side of Hope
(I havent seen it)
I'll be personally offended if it doesn't get the Golden Bear.
And the German and Ukraininan film, which is called School Number 3
is an amazingly touching and lyrical documentary.
That's it, the Berlinale is over, and tomorrow there will be no trace of us, hundreds or maybe thousands of journalists.
It's even a bit sad. Although on the bright side, the good news is
I can finally go to sleep.
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