Saturday, February 23, 2008

Plastic Bag Refrigerator Shedding Sweater

The trigger

















Muriel Jeker
and Penelope Pierson in Passions
Simple Sequence Short of a song. © MinanoFilms 2008.


Each film project has started something. A smell, a phrase overheard an inspiring encounter, a window overlooking the street and lets out a few snippets of conversation intimate and anonymous and harmless gesture of a particular body that I do not know, an idea obsessive idea activist, a simple desire to make a reality, mine or someone else ...

Passions began a simple text Muriel Jeker, a singer, gave me to read one day . A text that had written herself about herself.

Key excerpts from the text I am 32 years
Muriel Jeker
...
I'm 32, no children and all my teeth ... It is said that rabies is a motor. Good. I will then roll. Failing to succeed in love or ideal, I will succeed by hate. My ideals will come next.
...
I opened my eyes at half past one ET without feeling guilty for once. It was planned in my schedule. A few days in bed on his belly to the standoff with a burst almost handed me swinging plumb ...
... Like
experiences, I learn. Like always go ahead and do different things. When I left my place of psychiatric nurse to work as a clerk, they told me "saleswoman? How horrible! "I equal it had gone down the social ladder, as they say ...
...
And then, well, time passes, I reduce my hours at the store quietly, I give more and more singing lessons, I am more and more music. One day, I understand that I clearly wanted something else ...
...
So I write. Do only music. Giving singing lessons, repeat, doing gigs. I had come to turn ...


Wednesday, June 13, 2007

6 Grade Graduation Dresses

hello fish!

It's a bit hard to write the last message.
Fragments
island has opened a beautiful virtual space, allowing me to tell Cuba to the newspaper, in its banality and its charms.
But now I'm far from Cuba and his daily life. These fragments will stop this form.
I will soon upload a few recordings, songs, videos that I brought with me a bit about how to Patxi and his blog of scattered memories (besides, Patxi, you're good sources, I see!). I will also
new links, blogs are booming Cuban in the island as well as outside.
Loula , I think we will not have to Havana, but good travel to you.
David This virtual meeting is a bit late: the damage.
And to all readers curious about this island, I thank you for your faithful reading.
As they say a lot right now in the streets of Havana ...
¡ pesca'o Ciao!

Monday, May 21, 2007

Whitish Discharge At 38 Weeks

the literally

is another of those seemingly tiny details that will make you smile, and yet, in this island, it plays everything ...
Last Thursday, the newscaster did not read the text verbatim written the day before by Fidel Castro and published in Granma item. They read a summary, a summary.
is totally unprecedented.
Since the beginning of his " Reflections of the Commander in Chief " (must be the tenth now), and whatever the length of the text systematically presenters began their newspaper by reading word for word of that text.
No way to change a comma, skip a paragraph, summarize an idea: the word, that word is sacred, it is untouchable. This gave
hilarious scenes, ten, fifteen minutes of monologue, with a reporter transformed into an actor, trying to give impetus to intonation and long reflection written by another. Rodobaldo Hernandez and Rafael Serrano, respectively Featured presenters lunch and dinner, are particularly good at it, real actors, taking mine contrite or threatening depending on the tone required. The news came after
in what remained of time for the newspaper, sometimes a trickle.
But last Thursday, so this ritual declamation gave way to a summary.
Who decided that we could condense the long text (itself a summary record of three economists at A recent forum)? Who crossed the border taboo?
You will say that I exaggerate, but this island where everything is unsaid, the unwritten, every scratch on the veil of silence is the source of speculation.
For decades, Fidel Castro's speeches were transcribed fully and systematically in Granma, and rebroadcast in full on television, regardless of their length (usually between three and four hours, several times a week).
And one fine day someone decides to summarize the thought so often presented as perfect, Zenith Tube
... It does not look, but it's a real transgression.