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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.40,0:00:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Hunter College, Tribeca]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.82,0:00:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[New York Close Up]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.36,0:00:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.38,0:00:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, "Escape from New York" is my childhood\Nmovie.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.84,0:00:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I'm not a fool, Plisskin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.70,0:00:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Call me Snake.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.35,0:00:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York was kind of, like, the final frontier\Nof toughness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.30,0:00:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Hey, Snake! When did you get in?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.28,0:00:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Snake Plisskin is forced to go to New York\NCity--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.67,0:00:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a time-lapse bomb in his body--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.88,0:00:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to rescue the president and then get out;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.82,0:00:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, New York was a prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.84,0:01:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[VOICE OVER] The rules are simple: Once\Nyou go in, you don't come out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.68,0:01:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of, like, really relates to what\NI'm living through.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.66,0:01:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think Manhattan, it's not a prison now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.90,0:01:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just become, like, a playground for really\Nprivileged people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.50,0:01:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that I'm kind of, like, sad about\NNew York...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.35,0:01:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, what defines a city is its people\Nthat you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.12,0:01:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen all of my colleagues,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.74,0:01:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're struggling a lot to find studios.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.18,0:01:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people are depressed because of the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.69,0:01:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quantity of space they get for their money\Nis pretty bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.88,0:01:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem is, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.48,0:01:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody is committed\Nto something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.35,0:01:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is kind of why I really admire New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.77,0:01:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people are really intense.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.95,0:01:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're here because they want to do things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.24,0:01:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be surrounded with other crazy people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.14,0:01:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, because everybody wants to do that stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.46,0:01:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they need to be in the studios or working,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.03,0:01:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you never kind of, like, socialize with\Nthem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.27,0:01:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of difficult to find them in the\Nstreets--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.42,0:01:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to get together--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.82,0:01:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's impossible because...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.06,0:01:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh no, I need to..."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.92,0:02:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm working..."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.04,0:02:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh no, I need to do this..."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.97,0:02:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now time and space,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.91,0:02:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't, kind of, connect.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.43,0:02:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided I was going to move out.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.97,0:02:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like, "Okay, I'm leaving New York,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.11,0:02:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I should go to Mexico City and try a new\Nlife there."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.90,0:02:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Alejandro Almanza Pereda Escapes from New\NYork"]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.14,0:02:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Alejandro's apartment, Williamsburg]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.38,0:02:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh no, messy!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.57,0:02:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not good at making plans.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.22,0:02:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always wait until the last minute
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.77,0:02:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you never know, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.54,0:02:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just, that commitment--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.88,0:02:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.10,0:02:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That commitment kills me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.98,0:02:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But yeah, now I have that one-way ticket to\NMexico City.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.20,0:02:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I bought the ticket, I had three weeks\Nto pack my apartment--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.09,0:02:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pack my studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.63,0:02:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sell things. Bye bye.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.63,0:02:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as soon I was going to arrive to Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.66,0:02:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to kind of go crazy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.16,0:03:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I had to finish a new set of videos\Nand photos
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.14,0:03:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for my gallery in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.64,0:03:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was like, thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.83,0:03:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I just graduated from Hunter,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.59,0:03:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I should do it here."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.07,0:03:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And I still have three more weeks."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.92,0:03:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A prime spot in New York."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.32,0:03:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have a studio. Come on, just use it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.26,0:03:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Better to have loved and lost than never\Nto have loved at all" (2014)]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had an idea of this project.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.84,0:03:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just, like, experiment with materials and\Nobjects underwater.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.80,0:03:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I went to Phoenix this summer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.94,0:03:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we had access to pools.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.92,0:03:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My favorite painters were the Dutch\Nvanitas painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.70,0:04:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really attached to my work, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.60,0:04:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they used objects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.43,0:04:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they make this kind of relationship with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.94,0:04:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's always these small details.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.46,0:04:08.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's a fly there."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.88,0:04:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It deals with death.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.73,0:04:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It deals with time passing, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.31,0:04:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty, decay.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.71,0:04:32.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no pool.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.97,0:04:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked people around.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.06,0:04:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you know somebody with a pool? Jacuzzi?\NWhatever?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.10,0:04:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, yeah, definitely not.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.12,0:04:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Okay, let's do this!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.48,0:04:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, "Okay, how difficult would it be to\Nmake a tank?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.08,0:04:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I look on the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.14,0:04:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people do, like, plywood aquariums.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.62,0:04:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They make a sturdy, really nice box.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.11,0:04:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can fill it with water.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.10,0:05:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that one is going to be okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.72,0:05:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has a bunch of silicone and...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.76,0:05:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, we'll see.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.34,0:05:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Alright!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.82,0:05:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I filled it with water.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.69,0:05:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was afraid that just, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.16,0:05:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one ton of water was going through my studio\Nlike The Shining.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.01,0:05:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--God, we have a leak here!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.86,0:05:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.77,0:05:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to be a leaking tank.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.12,0:05:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'll have a river here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.14,0:05:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shooting...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.82,0:05:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to be wet.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.44,0:05:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.58,0:05:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the time limitations by now,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.91,0:05:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the technical issues, I've been having\Nso much...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.34,0:05:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I have like,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.39,0:05:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, Alejandro, just focus on some, really,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.64,0:06:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Three, two objects. Let's create something\Nwith a minimum."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.52,0:06:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to say, I'm really excited about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.26,0:06:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--So big! Goddamn it!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.98,0:06:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Can I have one pound?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.87,0:06:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--How much is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.89,0:06:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--$3.50.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.87,0:06:17.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Oh yeah. Ah, why not.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.35,0:06:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got some eggplant...phallic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.44,0:06:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eggplants, bananas, cherries...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.40,0:06:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the cherries don't float.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.76,0:06:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chinatown in my favorite place in New York\NCity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.29,0:06:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of the most untouched places.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.90,0:06:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With attitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.10,0:06:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to buy one nail, you can buy one\Nnail, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.22,0:06:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not in this corporate...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.43,0:06:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chinatown feels like more downtown Mexico City.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.48,0:06:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're breaking so many rules--
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.20,0:06:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, urban rules of New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.78,0:06:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's messy. It's hectic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.86,0:06:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's how, like, a city should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.86,0:07:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a tank--a fish tank--when I was a teenager,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.18,0:07:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I loved that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.60,0:07:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved how things behaved underwater.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.84,0:07:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've always been, kind of, interested in
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.12,0:07:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boats, submarines,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.58,0:07:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jacques Cousteau.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.70,0:07:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, on the surface, everything is just,\Nlike, stays put--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.44,0:07:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.90,0:07:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the water, you can use those, kind of...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.98,0:07:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those levitations to kind of create different\Nsculptures, in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.36,0:07:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pretty spectacular.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.38,0:08:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, it's getting kind of boring;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.16,0:08:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sculpture is so grounded, like a monument.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.84,0:08:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted sculpture like this, kind of floats around.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.98,0:08:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to levitate.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.28,0:08:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Moving day.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.98,0:08:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to say that I think everybody in the\Nworld
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.27,0:08:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should live in New York at least one or two\Nyears,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.07,0:08:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to just, kind of, make sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.52,0:09:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Alright, I think I'm more or less ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.14,0:09:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, it's not the only lifestyle you can have.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.32,0:09:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the only way of doing things.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.66,0:09:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--It's not so bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.18,0:09:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[LAUGHS] Yeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.34,0:09:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.22,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Goddamn it, the keys...alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.42,0:09:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never, kind of, think about the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.38,0:09:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't put plans on that, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.44,0:09:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's always transition for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.44,0:09:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going to Mexico right now, it's in a bad situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.32,0:09:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A political crisis
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.36,0:09:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of crime.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.00,0:09:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's funny, sometimes when I move cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.78,0:09:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's, you know, the worst time ever,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.51,0:09:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.04,0:09:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of something though, to look for...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.53,0:09:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for trouble, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.58,0:09:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I might escape from Mexico City, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.40,0:09:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I might go to L.A. and escape from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.01,0:09:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to escape all the time.