Cinema of Transgression
manifesto
We who have violated the laws,
commands and duties of the avant-garde; ie, to bore,
tranquillise and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by
practical convenience stand guilty as charged.
We openly renounce and reject the entrenched academic snobbery
which erected a monument
to laziness known as Structuralism and proceeded to lock out
those filmmakers who possesed the vision to see through this
charade.
We refuse to take their easy approach to cinematic creativity; an
approach which ruined the underground
of the sixties when the scourge of the film school took over.
Legitimising every mindless manifestation of sloppy movie making
undertaken by a
generation of misled film students, the dreary media arts centres
and geriatic cinema
critics have totally ignored the exhilarating accomplishments of
those in our rank - such underground invisibles as
Zedd, Kern, Turner, Klemann, DeLanda, Eros and Mare, and
DirectArt Ltd, a new generation
of filmmakers daring to rip out the stifling sraight jackets of
film theory in a direct attack on every value system known to
man.
We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films
never be made again.
We propose that a sense of humour is an essential element
discarded by the doddering academics and further,
that any film which doesn't shock isn't worth looking at. All
values must be challanged. Nothing is sacred.
Everything must be questioned and reassessed in order to free our
minds from the faith
of tradition.Intellectual growth demands that risks be taken and
changes ocur in political,
sexual and aesthetic alignments no matter who disapproves. We
propose to go beyond all limits set
or prescribed by taste, morality or any other traditional value
system shackling the minds of men.
We pass beyond and go over boundaries of millimeters, screens and
projectors to a state of expanded cinema.
We violate the command and law that we bore audiences to death in
rituals of circumlocution
and propose to break all the taboos of our age by sinning as much
as possible. There will be
blood, shame, pain and ecstacy, the likes of which no one has yet
imagined. None shall emerge unscathed.
Since there is no afterlife, the only hell is the hell of
praying, obeying laws, and deasing ourself before
authority figures, the only heaven is the heaven of sin, being
rebellious, having fun, fucking,
learning new things and breaking as many rules as you can. This
act of courage is known as transgression.
We propose transformation through transgression - to convert,
transfigure and transmute into
a higher plane of existence in order to approach freedom in a
world full of unknowing slaves.
