[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.16,0:00:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I questioned it. In the beginning, as to whether to do it. Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.69,0:00:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like too didactic. Stay away from it. Too political. Stay away from it. Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.44,0:00:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bin Laden, Bush, Queen... It was too specific. Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.12,0:00:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are like puppets. You know. Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.72,0:00:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hauser and Wirth, the gallery was looking to... Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.07,0:00:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Start a gallery in London, and they had some buildings they were looking at. Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.50,0:01:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, I was in London, and they invited me to go look at one building they were looking at. Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.79,0:01:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was this bank in Piccadilly. It had been an operating bank up until a few years before that. Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.73,0:01:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The teller windows were all there, everything was in place. Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.33,0:01:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went to see it one night, and it had a balcony, and I was kind of standing at the balcony. Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.59,0:01:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And "Wow it would be great to shoot a film of a video in this building." Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.53,0:01:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm interested in how the camera sees it and what the forms are. Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.57,0:01:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One way I see it is really quite beautiful. In another way, there is certain revulsion, of smashing food. Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.88,0:02:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drawer gets completely caked with food, and it was never taken out of the drawer, later rots. Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.22,0:02:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In one layer, I kind of know that it creates a reaction, in another way, it's quite beautiful, rotting food, you know. Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.27,0:02:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing, the film is made like play. You know, like kid's putting on play. Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.79,0:02:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Film is made that way. You just go "Okay, I'll be the queen, you be Bush. Okay, we're gonna have a party now." Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.06,0:02:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of direction as opposed to a scripted, constructed. Very loose, very much like pretend-and-play. Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.27,0:03:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that this part where Bush would cut his head, you know, was all gonna happen. I knew that would take place. Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.33,0:03:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew that queens would paint, but in a way I didn't know, Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.90,0:03:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just like an improvisation between these people with the paint and the knives and the cutting, Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.02,0:03:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that would go on for a period of time, right. Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.41,0:03:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew, by putting myself in these three people that I knew in that situation, they would respond and improvise off of each other. Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.89,0:03:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew by putting certain things in the room to give them to use, they would feed off of all that. Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.42,0:03:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[smothered sound]... Don't move! Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.01,0:03:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know whether I was looking for truth in there. I was just building a piece. Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.76,0:03:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was making a work of art.