Johnny Barcode is political
phantasy, parts of which were unintentionally filmed around areas, haunted
atmospheres featured in the riot scenes of the classic Fuckland City located
NZ film 'Sleeping Dogs' . The entire crew & cast were booted out of
the airport grounds, swooped by navy choppers, interrogated, escorted back
on the line toward towns,"You're not Normal." piped up one blue shield
ol' Sarge from Bugger the Queen's best street filth gang. "This area is
for NoRmAl people." A large concrete building downtown was broken
into for a rooftop film-sequence. Steel fences were erected around the
side of a bank building they tried to stop us filming for over 7 and a
half years of shooting. Confessions of Johnny Barcode was seen through
a view-finder in over 52 outside locations with a cast of 333
in front of the tripods and palms that held cameras. Film actors,subjects,
slaves are referred to as Barcotronics.
Within the church of
civilisation there are conservative liberalists who's one contribution
is that sex is Sin and man is an infallibility. This is an issue of sufficient
importance to warrant a violation of individual liberty, which has nothing
to do with absolute truth or authority. THEE religion of civilisation welcomes
the man who supports the guard dogs of the status quo, whom is paid only
the standard miserable pittance of masculine creation whilst subject to
the insults and orders of sacred social and political creeds and dogmas,
such is this charity of the fascist church of Civilisation.
Confessions of Johnny Barcode is perhaps the only film
in Aotearoa New Zealand history to be not funded by NZ On Air, Creative
NZ Film Commission or any other tentacles connected to the body of
the NZ government. Funding for this movie came from myself getting a job
as a commercial fisherman on the high seas, for which to start off with
I had an enormous fear and the rest I gratefully acknowledge came from
a lesbian couple whom donated a cash fund for the filmer to exchange some
of his sperm. Artificially inseminated of course, yeah, of course. They
have a Child. I have a film.
Surreal and Enigmatic, Le Confessions of Johnny Barcode
has all the makings of a major Cult Classic. The cast is superb, An impeccable
ensemble, the story is sensational & fantastic. The Confessions
Of Johnny Barcode is flashy for those in need of a tonic, The Confessions
Of Johnny Barcode is unabashedly brainfood.
To understand the mechanisms by which the mind can make
tolerable the temporary ambiguity implicit in risking is to force again
the hand of chance. Errors are reiterated as being essentially bad.
All emphasis
is bestowed on error correction, rather than error exploitation.
The change is automatically to increase the error
rate for a time. While the new mutations are under test.
Repetition
is a system for change. Humans learn by mutation.
ART is a rehearsal
for the orientation that makes innovation possible.
Pure organism
generating and organizing variety, capable of operating from a different
type of instruction, since the whole co-ordinates of the surroundings are
either too complex to specify,or are changing so unpredictably that no
particular strategy is useful, An organism operating in this way may have
something more than a centralized control structure.
IT must have a responsive network of sub-systems,
capable of autonomous behaviour and it must regard the irregularities of
the environment as a set of opportunities around which it will shApe &
adjust its own identity.
In filming just
like music variety is subdued possibly by professional training. At the
top of the pyramid. The director of Film, in music's case the composer.
Within this hierarchy of film next, and with fewer freedoms comes the director
of photography. To increase the reliability of everyone to be perfect transmitters
everyone's natural variety is subdued. So no-one on the set is required
to make not even the smallest innovations.
The crew operates
accurately as an organisation with the feel of a well functioning machine.
But its predictably for one class of tasks. That is not adaptive. It is
not self-stabilizing and does not easily assimilate change or novel environmental
co-ordination.
Videography
The structure of making
films through professional training
& hierarchy governs
the behaviour of film. The behaviour & formula for making films must
be changed. First by changing its structure. An activity which changes
the procedural and structural level of film has far greater social significance
than explicitly political messages. Anything that creates change that encourages
surrender in the viewer, be it questioning codes which suggest different
forms of personal relationships as to how even the process of the film
comes to be in its making which in Confessions Of Johnny Barcode
-an undoing perhaps of the "Normal" or asexual accepted way, which is a
political statement in itself.
