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suicide as a last straw to draw attention to yourself.
Of course in Wednesdays suicide you have another man who can't have a normal sexual relation-
ship...
It was directly inspired from another movie, Abel Fererra's Ms.45 (1981) where the guy sits on the
bench talking about how he killed someone and then Ms.45 draws her gun and shoots him. We took
that as a starting point and, of course, invented another dysfunctional character.
In the David Kerekes book, he said you had a childhood dream about a king and a black and white
ball'
It wasn't a childhood dream, but a little story from a physics class, designed to explain why black
objects absorb sunlight faster than white objects and how a condemned men who has to choose a
white ball in order to live can do this if he knows something about physics. What I thought I could
not convey was the complex motive, the emotional slip-up of, say, the condemned man, who is drawn
to the warmth of the black ball because it is warm, while his intellect (his mind) fights to remember
that the cold white ball means freedom and the black actually means death. It seems an easy feat:
draw out the white, cold ball and go free. But, robbed of his controlling eye, his unconscious wants
warmth and emotion - a fatal slip-up occurs. You see, this is difficult to convey without some vety
inventive visual metaphor. I haven't given it any more thought, but I still think it is difficult to find a
short conclusion suitable for the final scene of a short film. I always imagined it in the reduced, kind
of archaic style of Pasolini's Oedipus Rex (1967).
My thanks to both Jorg Buttgereit and Franz Rodenkirchen for agreeing to the interviews which
appear in this volume.

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