BUBBLES : PINK VIOLENCE
COLOR VIDEO, STEREO
19 MIN., 44 SEC.
2005
STARRING: Maud Chayer, Philippe Hamelin,
Michel Laforest, Vincent Leduc, Julie Tremble and
Céline B. La Terreur |
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BUBBLES: PINK VIOLENCE
Or how the media invented soap operas?
Soap Opera: Bubbles of fake love, bubbles of the rich, glamorous
people
Opera: Fiction, cruel, passionate, theatrical (sometimes
tacky) |
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Is it being cynical or just lucid, but as
“soaps operas” we include: new broadcasts,
reality shows, some cinematographic productions and movies
out of the “new cinema” wave, advertising,
all the fabulous evenings such as the Oscars, Festival
de Cannes and in finally, the soap operas. |
This is a world where television has switched from a local,
naïve educational tool of about 10 channels to a world-wide
virus where you can watch specialized pornography or a scientific
documentary day and night.
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This is a world where television is part
of every day dialogues, watched during many family dinners
and is a source of relaxation that can provide soothing
experiences after a hard day’s work. |
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In the wonderful world of television:
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| While reading a few independent newspapers (that soon will
disappear), we realize that what we soberly call the “news
broadcast” is just a censored, controlled, corrupted pile
of so-called information. The news broadcast becomes the less
glamorous and the most ordinary soap opera of all. |
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| How many times has a documentary been betrayed
by the money of the producers? How many times has research data
been falsified in order to get the expected conclusion? Often
objectivity, credibility and integrity are no longer part of
the realm of documentary films. They become another fiction,
carefully planned by those who have the money: to create another
type of soap opera. |
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The “reality shows”are packed withrehearsed situations,
rehearsed tears, rehearsed surprises and banal outcomes that
are organized from the massive unforeseen recorded materials.
We don’t find the freshness, the spontaneity or the spectacle
that we were hoping for. We see them as the latest type of soap
opera, where Mrs. and Mr. X pretend to look amazed in an incongruous
situation. |
| Of all these pathetic attempts to make us believe in the reality
of the producers, we prefer the real soap opera, where glamorous,
detestable, excessive wannabe’s show the world their poor
acting, poor budget, poor scenarios and poor dialogues. The
soap operas offer us the over the top riches, the over the top
Champagne, the over the top cruises that dare to tell us: we
just want to entertain you. Because that is what television
is about. |
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It’s not about discovering the truth.
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| It’s not about being aware of what’s going on
in the world. |
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It’s not about learning anything. |
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| It’s entertainment, a bubble of entertainment. |
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Céline B. La Terreur
Translation : David Bergevin |
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