Channel 4 (UK) 1996-10-26 By ??? "Fake Love" Subject: Bjork Fake Love TV appearance Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:35:06 GMT From: Stephen Anderson To: Blue Eyed Pop - The Bjork/Sugarcubes Fans Mailing List At 00:45 28/10/96 GMT, you wrote: >Transcript of what I managed to record of Bjorks appearance on >'Fake Love' a documentary about Araki, a Japanese erotic/porn >art photographer. I saw the whole thing, you didn't miss much with Bjork, but obviously the programme had been on for half an hour before Bjork came on talking about Araki's other pornographic work. Here is a transcript of the bit you missed: Voice over: Araki says, "Perhaps the definition of Pornography is that you can masturbate to it. People complain that they can't masturbate to my photographs, so it isn't pornography". This is what he tells me, sitting in his studio waiting for a model to turn up for a shoot. The model is Bjork, who is another big fan of Araki. [Araki is seen taking a copy of the 'POST' CD out of his bag]. "Voice over" continues: When I see Bjork and Araki together, I wonder if Bjork is going to take *her* clothes off, and be tied up and hung from the ceiling. [sja - this relates to something earlier in the programme where his previous model was tied up to the ceiling naked for the photo shoot]. Bjork: I was really interested in Araki - [she stutters] - I didn't know where he lived or anything. Araki's Personal Assistant: Araki, of cource he didn't even know who Bjork was, and he really didn't care. He said 'yes' because Bjork really wanted to be photographed only by him, and he liked the idea. Bjork: (Sound bites) - His photography has got everything I thrive on. - I just, yeh, I just really fell in love with it. Bjork talking to Araki's personal assistant: Yah, I just brought all my favourite clothes. Araki: (Talks to camera) For a woman, becoming naked is a very emotional thing. What she feels as she undresses can be seen in her face. I get her to undress to do a portrait, I don't need to show her body. These will be great photos. ["Possibly Maybe" was playing in the background while he said all that] [sja - he is saying that to do a shot of her face only, she still has to get naked - Pha!, these weird artists :-) ] Then it continues into the bit that John already transcribed. For completeness, I shall leave the rest quoted below so that some people may prefer to read on what happened next if they missed it the first time: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Video tape starts. > >Araki and team setting up a photo set to the strains of Big Time >Sensuality. Cut to Bjork. > >Bjork: > It was kinda like getting an overdose of life, getting like 10 > chocolate cakes in 10 minutes, it's like too good and you can't > deal with it and it's like aaaaah. > >Cut to photo session of Bjork in red dress and yellow Moomins t-shirt >sitting on the floor. Cut back to Bjork in a room. > >Bjork: > Sometimes I feel like the world is full of cowards but his picture > are like brave and they look life straight in the face. They got > courage, they got the ability to see magic in just daily things, > like teapots, like normal really boring things and they make it > magical. > > It makes it all like innocent and like naive and all that, and > also the cruelty, as well like they can be very stark and very > cruel. And I like this opposite. > >Cut to photo session of Bjork, in black and white, looking like Kate >Bush. Cut to Araki in a room. > >Araki: > She doesn't need to undress, her face is naked, pure. She's like > a little girl. > > And me I'm a little boy boy. A pre-adolescent. > >Cut to photo session of Bjork. Cut back to Bjork in a room. > >Bjork: > Pornography for me, how can I put it, in communication with other > people, there's several standards. You got 1st class, you got 2nd > class and you got 3rd class communication. Pornography is like > when you get to 3rd or 4th class. Like gets a bit, uh, like > B-film, like not really uh. You get an old sausage, or like not > really quality. > > But like everything Araki does is 1st class. > >Cut to photo session of Bjork. On a bed, lit in blue, wearing a top >with the straps slipping away. > [JS - this is one of my fave Bjork pics] > >Cut to Bjork and Araki, presumably after the photo shoot. Both are >giggling. Araki snatches a quick kiss on Bjork. Both start acting >a bit nutty and wave their hands in the air. Bjork excitedly shouts >'one - nil' and then 'Tottenham Hotspur 1'. > [JS - so Bjork supports Spurs, but > Chelsea definitely got 3 ...] [sja - you didn't mention that when Araki snatched a kiss from Bjork, it was smack on the lips!] >Cut to Araki in a chair, later. > >Araki: > I nearly went all the way, I nearly came on her face. > I restrained myself because everyone was watching. > >Cut to other Araki interviews and other people being photographed. >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >If the transcript sounds a bit odd, the whole documentary was a >bit surreal. I have no idea what I missed at the start. It was >probably even stranger. >-- >John Saunders email: bjork@gemini.demon.co.uk ------------------- BBC TV Research & Development, SURREY/LONDON UK // Stephen J Anderson Web page: currently closed for refurbishment \X/ sja@rd.bbc.co.uk Ftp site: currently closed for refurbishment -------------------------------------------------------------------