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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.10,0:00:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Omer Fast: "Continuity"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.08,0:00:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those moments are magical in film
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.58,0:00:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we have kind of a pure linear motion
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.64,0:00:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that approaches something and reveals it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.62,0:00:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm interested in the stuff that gets\Nin the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.92,0:00:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With more and more and more questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.29,0:00:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you create, in a sense, a productive kind\Nof confusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.75,0:00:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that's what I'm after.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.76,0:00:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a commission for dOCUMENTA
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.61,0:00:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were also going to show this on TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.89,0:00:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to think about this, kind of, TV\Nmovie
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.36,0:00:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this notion of the domestic interior that\NTV is all about--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.66,0:00:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least for me--and that kind of middle\Nclass obsessions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.94,0:00:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of showing the family
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.65,0:00:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and showing the living room
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.93,0:00:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and showing the kind of dynamic within a particular\Nfamily.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.76,0:00:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted to do it in the context of a\Nhomecoming--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.96,0:01:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is, ostensibly or topically, Germany’s\Ninvolvement in Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.04,0:01:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except for, there isn't that kind of classical\Ndevelopment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.28,0:01:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't reach a particular climax and a\Ndenouement.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.64,0:01:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a repetition of these scenes and\Nthese places.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.12,0:01:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is increasingly formalized.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.06,0:01:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And having TV as the medium for \Nshowing the story
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.58,0:01:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has dictated a lot choices I made.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.62,0:01:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have two parents who are middle class
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.44,0:01:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are doing materially well.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.04,0:01:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But something in their relationship is off.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.18,0:02:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a trauma,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.47,0:02:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's not the trauma that you think\Nit is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.63,0:02:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the trauma of emptiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.76,0:02:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a, sort of, suburban desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.78,0:02:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's this kind of middle-aged angst that these\Npeople have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.96,0:02:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they try to fill it with something--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.54,0:02:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that thing is young flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.76,0:02:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's this empty hole in their relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.68,0:02:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they fill with a choreography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.02,0:03:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They try to revisit this homecoming--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.33,0:03:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this return of the son--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.47,0:03:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which never took place.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.65,0:03:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pay these young men,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.15,0:03:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are male prostitutes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.64,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some money in order to come and perform.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.44,0:03:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These men, who offer their flesh to these\Nparents,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.60,0:03:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in a sense also the young men whose flesh\Nis used
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.12,0:03:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to do the state's bidding.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.68,0:03:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, who do we ship off to do our bidding\Nin Afghanistan?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.72,0:04:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world keeps asserting itself in, kind\Nof,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.75,0:04:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strange and theatrical ways around them--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.32,0:04:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these little apparitions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.95,0:04:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these sort of ghosts and images that they\Nhave.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.02,0:04:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They become, in a sense, viewers of the spectacle--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.99,0:04:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.06,0:04:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death should happen far away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.12,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, conflict should not happen in these\Nparticular comfortable surroundings.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.08,0:04:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, they are caught between those two\Nroles--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.95,0:04:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being a soldier, being a son,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.42,0:04:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being an object of desire.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.10,0:04:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for me, the more interesting possibility\Nwas
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.44,0:04:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe there was never a son.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.14,0:04:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe there were sons and they're just gone
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.23,0:04:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is this vacuum.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.32,0:04:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, they drive down this country road.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.31,0:05:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen that country road three times already.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.90,0:05:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of a sudden there is a camel walking\Ntowards them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.22,0:05:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they follow this animal to a quarry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.66,0:05:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inside is sons that we’ve seen up until\Nthat point.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.08,0:05:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're comrades.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.01,0:05:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all dressed in fatigues and uniforms.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.43,0:05:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've been ambushed and they've been killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.88,0:05:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through having these multiple references,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.00,0:05:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes something I was able to talk about\Nseveral things at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.12,0:05:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is none of them at any one time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.68,0:05:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's about sort of figuring out what to\Nput along the way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.15,0:05:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pull you away from this notion that there\Nis a linear story
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.96,0:05:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a goal at the end.