Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us
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| Original title | Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 50 minutes |
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| Director | Johannes Grenzfurthner |
| script | Frank Apunkt Schneider, Nathan Boyer, Johannes Grenzfurthner, |
| production | Günther Friesinger |
| music | Jonathan Mann |
| camera | Thomas Lindermayer, Davor Garic |
| cut | Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry |
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Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us is an Austrian comedic musical puppet film from 2011 directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner . With a length of 50 minutes, the film has the character of a featurette . The voices of the main roles were spoken by David Dempsey and Roland Gratzer (both moderators at radio station FM4 ). The German internet expert Jens Ohlig ( Chaos Computer Club ) appears as a guest star .
The censorship-critical film was produced by the art group monochrom with the help of the Austrian television station Okto . The film and the protagonists are often cited as examples of the political and artistic work of monochrom .
background
Kiki and Bubu are two neo-Marxist hand puppets that are formed in critical theory , but still have a child-like, naive approach to the world. They were originally developed by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Frank Apunkt Schneider in 2008 for the web TV program of the American online magazine Boing Boing . The idea was to explain terms from the political discussion in the form of funny short films. The format is clearly based on TV children's programs such as Sesame Street .
In the world of Kiki and Bubu, there are minor characters that appear again and again, such as the hectic and driven online porn monster .
In 2011 monochrom decided to produce a first "almost evening-length film" with Kiki and Bubu. This film was called "Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us" and is in the nature of a musical. The title of the film is a play on words with Toys “R” Us and the US media age rating: R - Restricted .
action
The two friends Kiki and Bubu meet in a multiplex cinema. Bubu is very pleased that he received a partner proposal on an online dating platform . It is the entire Chinese people. Kiki is interested in online dating and also wants to create a profile on the platform. It turns out that Kiki's match is the entire Chinese people too. So that the two of them can present themselves positively, they want to send the link to an old video that they put on YouTube . In doing so, they notice that the video was deleted from YouTube because it did not comply with the platform's terms of use. An old friend of Kiki and Bubu, the online porn monster , had appeared in the video, so it was deleted because of "pornographic content". Kiku and Bubu want to find out why this happened and what censorship means. Die Wise Explosion advises the two to ask the internet expert Jens Ohlig (who lives on a macaroni and cheese box). After a long journey they find Ohlig and are informed about censorship. You begin to think about feelings and emotion work ("Feelings are a means of production") and self-censorship. Then they decide the Google seek and ask why he censored the video. The Google , a saucepan with a multitude of eyes, lives in a heavenly valley, is very stressed and not particularly helpful. He makes it clear to Kiki and Bubu that the video on YouTube will be deleted because consumers rule the world. While the internet would be powered by pornography, many mainstream consumers would be religious and feel repulsed by pornographic content. He would not share this opinion, but there is no getting around mainstream consumers. He ruled the world. Google sends Kiki and Bubu into the wasteland of the “periphery”, where all “failures of the information society” would find refuge. There they meet the Sad Porn tape , a porn - VHS -Videoband, which is sad to be obsolete technology. It has no friends because no one would watch porn tapes anymore, so the tape would have become a singer-songwriter now . Coincidentally, the Happy Porn Cassette shows up and announces that old videotapes are now being digitized and uploaded to a website called YouPorn . The Sad Porn Cassette is happy about it and wants to accompany the Happy Porn Cassette . Kiki and Bubu have the idea to put their video cassette on YouPorn as well. This would help them avoid censorship on YouTube. Happy that they have concluded the adventure positively, they return home. However, there they will receive mail from YouPorn. Your video can't be shown on YouPorn because it wouldn't actually show pornographic content. The online porn monster would be too little. Kiki and Bubu still cannot send a video to the Chinese people and are very sad. They console themselves with drinking chocolate from Bubu's mother.
production
script
The screenplay was written by Frank Apunkt Schneider and Johannes Grenzfurthner in collaboration with the American artist Nathan Boyer. Boyer met monochrom in 2010 during his stay as artist in residence in the Museumsquartier in Vienna.
financing
The film was supported by the Viennese television broadcaster Okto and the film funding of the City of Vienna's Magistrate 7.
Filming and editing
The shooting was carried out within one day on December 13, 2010 in the Okto studio in Vienna. A common stage in puppet theater was set up and filmed. The entire film was completed in two weeks.
aesthetics
The film has an aspect ratio of 4: 3 and has the appearance of the quality of an old VHS tape. Part of the film are the recurring tape interference and noise. The film thus also plays with the topic of obsolete media technology at the visual level .
music
The music was prepared by the American composer Jonathan Mann based on the libretto by monochrom . The style can be described as minimalist electro-pop .
distribution
The film has been shown at various festivals and conventions (e.g. in Vienna, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando), broadcast on Okto and is also available online for free download. The film was also shown as a video installation at the 54th Venice Biennale in the special exhibition Future Pass - From Asia to the World . As part of the Porn Film Festival Vienna 2019, the film was shown as an interesting examination of porn and censorship.
Web links
- Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film
- Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us on Vimeo
Individual evidence
- ↑ jakob.steinschaden: re: publica starts today in Berlin. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Blunzen gegen den Boulevard - derStandard.at. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (Austrian German).
- ↑ Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner, Monochrom. June 21, 2011, accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ monochrome: monochrome: 23 WORKS - Number 21: "Kiki And Bubu". June 9, 2013, accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Boing Boing tv: Monochrom's Marxist sock puppets. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ BBtv: Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets (monochrome). Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Killing Capitalism With Christmas: Happy Holidays from BBtv + monochrom! Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ BBtv - Monochrome: Economic Recession Wisdom from Sock Puppets. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ FM4 ORF / Today's webtip: Kiki and Bubu. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Nathan Boyer (AiR, MuseumsQuartier). Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Kiki and Bubu: Film shooting at Okto TV | info monochrome. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US World Premier! - CRASH Space. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ eSeL: Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ^ Chicken John: Austrian Sock Puppets, Elvis, and the Next Big Thing. Accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Film screening: monochrom's Kiki and Bubu: Rated R US (at HOPE Conference 2012). Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Ryan Price: Film: monochrom's Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US. Accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Monochrom Presents Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us. In: Laughing Squid. November 26, 2012, Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Thursday, October 27, 2011 MONOCHROME: Kiki and Bubu. Rated R Us (The Movie) @ Balthasar. Accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Kiki and Bubu: neo-Marxist sock puppets join dating service, get friended by China, get taken down from YouTube. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Future Pass: Artists at the Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana. 54th Venice Biennale 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2019 (en-EN).
- ↑ Angelo Volpe, monochrome. Future Pass - Part 2. Accessed March 10, 2019 (en-EN).
- ↑ PFFV 2019. Accessed on April 3, 2019 .