17 September 2004: Question and Answer

From the question & answer session following last night's very well-received premiere screening of Orphans of Delirium...

Audience Member: Yes, you said that this film is going to be out on DVD? I'd like to ask the performers, how do you feel about these deeply personal experiences of yours being out there like that - having this stuff shown in people's living rooms?

Me: I'm hoping that people use it as porn.

[much laughter]

Me: I'm really glad we're sending it out there. Like Sherpa said, a film like this isn't really about entertainment. The reason I agree to do a performance like this, to put in all the time and effort it requires, isn't to entertain people - it's to pose a challenge to people, or a question. And now we're showing this film as a way to keep posing that question, and we're sending it out into people's homes to ask the question for us.
We got together for a few months and we did this work, and we found these things in ourselves that we never knew were there, these really big, godlike things, much bigger than anything we thought we could be.
So the question this film is going to be out there asking people, in their own living rooms, is this: If we found all these things in ourselves, with just a few month's work, then what kind of things are in you, that are that big, that you don't know about yet?

[applause]