TRAS BAMBALINAS
Why do you do this at D’Bodas @ XV Años?
Nobody can give what they don't have.
D'Bodas@XV Anos and its content are what they are
because they simply are, with nothing more to add.
It's a brush that sweeps through the city and paints
colorful environments on dry streets, and other
times adds more elements to fruitful streets.
It wants to bring out flora and fauna in
deserts, or unite waters with waters and rivers that
flow and give color to the vegetation and the
environment. I do it because I know how to do it,
because it's who I am, without pretensions of
greatness, nor brushstrokes of scarcity,
either.
- Is there any other proposal?
Yes! Amidst all this dynamic of love, there's
the one of questioning the Mass Media.
Once a brother of mine told me about Japanese philosophy,
which I found interesting. Japanese
philosophy says that when you want to
produce something new, know the product,
study it, analyze it, match it, and surpass it.
They called it the Japanese philosophy of the obvious.
In this sense, D' Bodas & XV Anos, in its
genre, in its purpose, analyzes the
mass media, observes
how they work, develops a proposal and
puts it into practice, but there is a curious phenomenon
in the audiences (which is like that of
a mother with her children), that the children
reproduce many of their parents' values
and bring them to light in their interactions with
others, sometimes without knowing where
those behaviors come from, because they
are in the subconscious.
The same thing happens with formal
Mass Media.
Mass Media are like parents; what they do, what they propose, is transmitted to billions of people, and their behaviors and proposals create a Mass Culture, a Mass Behavior, which, as the name itself says, is "of the masses," of millions of people, and everything that is produced outside of that Mass Culture is considered old-fashioned, obsolete, not good, not liked, not appropriate, because the behavior of the parent figure exists in the minds of millions and millions of people, and they reject, belittle, and do not appreciate other patterns, other behaviors, other values (which are their own, personal, family values, like those of Pocahontas, let's say) because they want to reproduce those who taught them the pattern, its basis, its scale of values, and its millions of followers... Who do they want to reproduce and resemble?
The Mass Media, the generators of behavior, the parents who play in the unconscious of men, who are behind their minds.
In this sense, D'Bodas & XV Anos brings a more personal, more familiar, more our own, more local, more community-oriented proposal, without the excesses of mass culture that aim to reach thousands and millions of people in the esoteric realm, creating television programs focused on the eccentricity of dresses to differentiate them from the ordinary, and you can already see dresses that look like something from Mars, Versace dresses, some highlighting bodies, figures, not the content, what is inside, but what is outside, what can "dazzle" to generate audiences, and Dadaist programs are created with comments like, "Did you notice how that person looked in that dress?... wow!"; instead
of…
"How is your son? What is he doing? What
activities is he enrolled in? And did your mother
recover from the pain she had yesterday? How are you doing in
your math class? You told me you
were having problems? What do I want for my
future? If I were to leave here, what would I like
to have accomplished? …
The personal, the private, what is
ours; far removed from the bombastic, the
vain, to give meaning to other things that
matter more than how a person we don't even know looks
(show business or soap opera artists) and who are
thousands of miles away from us, but rather
to give importance to what is ours,
personal, here, close by, the uncle, the aunt, the
mother, our child. What matters is what is ours.
- But it sells! What is far away, sells!
And yet you have it! You have those TV programs!
There are audiences for it.
If you want to see other proposals, there are other media with
other ideas, and you can voluntarily
change the channel and satisfy your need
by watching what suits your needs.
But if you want a different kind of ideas, come with us, let's listen, let's listen to each other, and let's create another more family-oriented proposal, respecting family values, more like respecting Pocahontas and her views, with content, with a vision of family, of couple.
-It seems like John Lennon?…
In Writing?
- In One Thousand and One Nights there are passages that are everyday, that are not out of the ordinary…
I know, but we also have to participate in a realistic approach.
There are many short stories and novels that work with the phenomenal because they want to generate audiences and have to deal with the esoteric as a way to access audiences, and I think that audiences can also be accessed by creating realistic landscapes.
There was a generation in Spain that was called the Generation of '98, almost at the beginning of the 20th century, but all those writers, Unamuno, Pérez Galdós, Azorín, and even Russian writers like Tolstoy, and Mexicans like Vasconcelos; Americans like Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls) painted reality.
And here, the national reality at D’Bodas & XV Anos is the family, the reality between couples, the problems that arise between couples, distrust, poor communication, jealousy, infidelity, expectations, life goals, the children who form a family, the consequences, the decisions. I think we should ask questions in this regard about that reality, and those questions will permeate through One Thousand and One Nights with Miss Beautiful.
We have to observe and question this phenomenon in families, with all its problems, if we want a new vision for new families, more concerned about raising kids in healthy environments.
Mass media is erasing family values and commitments in terms of creating healthy families, and we need to create other type of content to embrace new attitudes and behaviors for better outcomes in our society.