Subject: John Waters!
From: Samantha Longoni (samlong@club-internet.fr)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 07:31:54 CST
"Pecker".
To start off different are the degrees of 'connaissance' that we have of nature, the world, people, and I include Media and art. Analyzing these different degrees can mean going deeper into things and acquiring more knowledge and can also mean loosing certain spontaneity of perception. By this I am not pro "superficiality", nor pro "sensations", pro "uh how nice. lets change painting now!" I simply mean appreciating the phenomenon, or a freshness of a certain appearance tied to the being itself, a being (person, film, art work,.) that already in itself is a "being-toward" to use Nancy's terminology: an activity within the being itself that comes into presence.
I therefore don't want to go and reach out for the "unconscious" of this film.
I will try to analyze the "materiality" of this film and its "form". Matter in "Pecker" unfolds and re-folds primarily thanks to its continuity. The form of the film cuts, circumcises the plans, the objects, and the realities of Pecker's world. Its form is continuos and at the same time separates what our perception anticipates since the beginning.
To give oneself to this film, to its matter is the equivalent of abandoning oneself to chaos of perception, of sensations, of stereotypes and probably archetypes as well, which are not immediately catalogued.
Matter in "Pecker" is precisely his world before categorization, raw perception before our understanding proceeds to the coding / de-coding of his reality and the reality around him. "Pecker" 's form would therefore be the raw perception once domesticated and analyzed thought its signs and signifiers.
Nietzsche said, I don't remember in what book, something like:
Man is an inventive creature, creator of forms and rhythms; man doesn't like anything more than inventing new forms; let us observe only what our eye sees since it has nothing more to look at; man creates for himself to see.
I will try to reply to this quote. in my next posting!
ciao
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