Tuesday, January 31, 2012

EVEN YOU CAN ANIMALIZE YOURSELF LIKE WOMEN AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH THE PROPER ATTIRE IF YOU ONLY TRY! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS CLOSE YOUR EYES AND GRIMACE!
Image by Jiri Georg Dokoupil. In a 15 minute long self-proclaimed relaxation video I just saw there was one interpreter, a close to nature brunette in various floaty evening gowns traipsing around deserts, beaches and Mexican ruins, bending over backward while accompanied by feral animals.Disregarding the fact that most were carnivore,she walks continuously around the various primal landscapes and then stops abruptly, all to place her head against each and every bear or jaguar,close her eyes and fall into a trance with the animal following suit while annoying canned New Age music plays. At times indigenous people in indigenous or campesino dress would substitute the animals instead,not falling asleep but standing next to her,since they were less appealing. Only one man on the sand celebrated the video-maker's something by simulating sleep during a small ceremony. Our heroine walks right past it. There was also one shot of a meaningful head-on glance exchanged between a young buck and the interpreter,as she walks past, assembling within it all the vibrantly formulaic qualities of a wild countryside Latin American male shaman. He didn't say hello because A) you couldn't hear it over the music, B) he was on a train in passing and C) the woman in evening wear was in the video possibly on a friendship mission with the director and these things take awhile to clear out.

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