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Alexander Poberailo
  • 5 months ago
Discovered in the forgotten archives of public access television. "Structural Dialogues" was an experimental program that ran briefly, yet managed to question the very existence of art.

In this unique surviving episode, leading thinkers of their time – Eyla and Corvin – delve into a metaphysical discussion on the future of cinema. They reject narrative, image, and sound to find truth in... beige paint. This is a conversation that conceptualizes silence, re-contextualizes the potato as an art object, and asks the ultimate question: is the highest cinematic experience to become a wall?

Warning: This is not merely an interview. It is a cultural artifact. A simulation. An experience.

P.S. This video is a modern artistic reconstruction and satire of 1970s intellectual programming. Or maybe it isn't.
Transcript
00:00The silence, yeah, it is structural.
00:26Structure requires a past. The potato, for instance, was once uncooked. An aggressive act of becoming. We are told this is cinema.
00:39Precisely. But the viewer, a vulgar term, is still watching. We must destroy the act of watching. The future of cinema is, naturally, sentient paint.
00:56It's not just a potato, you see. It represents something more. A deeper truth about consumption.
01:10The beige. A bold choice.
01:12It feels nothing. Therefore, it feels everything. The ultimate narrative.
01:23Imagine. You don't watch the film. You are the wall.
01:30You experience.
01:32Dasang, the subtle thrill of drying. For a subscription fee, of course.
01:38And what of the radical otherness? Is it? Dampness?
01:45I left milk out this morning. I believe it has achieved otherness by now.
01:56The poetry of coagulation. The texture.
02:02We are moving beyond story. Beyond image. Into the pure, unadulterated experience of being. Interior decoration.
02:11The script says I should look triumphant here. So, there it is. The experience.
02:20So, cinema will no longer be a window to the world. But a wall in the world.
02:27The path is clear. Two potatoes.
02:33Protatos.
02:44To a virtual, countering house at Singleton Street.
02:48By Space Line.
02:49The earth is not a human body.
02:51I love the world deviant.
02:53The portrait of the bureau.
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