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Keren cytter, <Rose Garden>, Video, 8min. 57sec., 2014
Keren cytter Rose Garden
<Rose Garden>(2014) is a tragic story that takes place in a Texan bar. It can be said that this work is a pastiche of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film <The Golden Age>(1930). The name of the bar must have come from the slogan ‘We Don’t Promise You a Rose Garden’ written in a Marine Corps recruitment poster. However, the slogan whose usage was so ignorantly changed by the Marine Corps was originally taken from the book ‘I Didn’t Promise You a Rose Garden’, which is about a schizophrenic woman who created her own world in an elaborate fantasy. One may consider this work to be a film that has the contrast between its dramatic storyline and lighthearted composition as its key theme. A number of stories exist independently, yet, all of those independent scenes overlap. Just like the scenes in Buñuel’s film, the plot is played out without enough explanation. Conversations in it are illogical as if written by a child, and at times, voice tracks don’t match the actors’ mouth movements. The soundtracks change the mood, but none of them are congruous with the scenes. The film seems like an alternate reality. |
