/after The Fisherman and the Goldfish/
CD-ROM and Multimedia Screening Project
"75 wishes" on
- 13.Internatinales Videofestival' 15-17 May 2003 Bochum, Deutschland >>see the catalogue>>
- Medientrurm Graz Austria
75 wishes CD-ROM /interactive video/ CD-ROM and Multimedia Screening Project The wishes
1.
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Do I start now?
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Its up to you.
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All right, I think I only have one
wish to ask the goldfish for, I dont have three
wishes, and my only wish is
it is whenever
I
Hang on, how do I put this in a logical and coherent
sort of way
my only wish is that the goldfish
fulfils all of my wishes as long as I live.
2.
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Money, money or something
it takes hard work to earn it
three wishes is too few
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Right, but they are important, its the three main wishes which are
you know, for the rest of your life
wishing for something that is
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So, the first one goes
the first one is
the first one is
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I cant hear you
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The first one is
wait a minute
Ventzi, thats not a simple question, its rather a global one, its about existence,
about life
its about
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Well yes, thats right.
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Its not a simple question
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No, it isnt
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Its not a simple one
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It isnt, but you should keep on trying to find out the answers for yourself
constantly
so that you
know exactly what youre doing
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So my first wish is
my first wish, for the time being, is to make it up with a friend, whom I havent seen for quite a while
And second
Id like to make friends with my sister again
cos that feels almost
impossible too,
and the third one
my third wish is
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come on, tell me about it
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My third wish is
to have my own house at the seaside. Thats it.
3.
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Well, if I had this goldfish, or
if I caught this goldfish, actually
My
first wish is
it is to realize my professional
potential; my second wish is
to have lots of
love and many beautiful women around me, and one of them, the most
beautiful one
And
my third wish refers to my son, you know, I wish hed have the same, I mean the two things I just mentioned.
4.
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Three wishes
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Right, the goldfish
OK, I want to be independent
of anything, I mean independent of society
men
women
parents
anything
I want to be independent of society, which is impossible
I want to be independent thats my first wish, and my second one
is
Id like to experience
and live through every single bit of the world! You might find this
hard to understand, but I do want it
5.
- Just three wishes, and nothing more specific
about them?
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Right, just as it happens in the
stories; no wishes referring to health; imagine youve got the goldfish
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Perhaps Id ask her to give me a higher standard of living
well, with all the implications like money and so on
a car
but
it sounds rather unpleasant when you put it in these
words
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So you want a higher standard
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A better standard of living, a better
Internet connection
and
beautiful women as well
what else can anyone wish for
thats all
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You have one more wish left
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Oh, come on, I think I listed all
three of them: a better standard of living
ah, right, the
Internet connection is implied in the standard of living, so thats even better: a higher standard, which implies all
the things mentioned; beautiful women
and
I dont know
perhaps something nice
an event
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A single event?
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Yes, I mean something like a trip;
something to remember
like an excursion
to the Philippines
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And thats all you wish for in your entire life, thats it, right? I mean these three wishes are for life
and theyre enough for you.
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Well
I wouldnt exactly say theyre enough but
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What else do you want
? If you had good standard of living, pretty women and
travel
what more could you possibly desire
?
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Its just occurred to me that after those three wishes came true, Id start feeling bored again and Id ask for something else.
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Well, yes, thats it, thats the tricky
part of it
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I think Id like to go away somewhere for New Years Eve
for example
to Budapest
this New Year celebration
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You mean 2001?
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Mm
you know, the new millennium and all that stuff.
6.
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Can I have just one wish fulfilled
three times?
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One wish coming true three times?
Whats that?
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No, its nonsense, I was kidding
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My three wishes are very simple.
First
Id like to have
an air raid shelter underground.
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But you should make wishes for a
lifetime
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Sure, I could use it any time I
wanted, that fits in with the definition, right
And the furnishing of this shelter would be
terrific
that is
very
Well, my second wish is
I want to have loads of money
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I know, thats
rather
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And my third wish is
at this point Im a little superstitious. If I announce my wish, it might not come true
so I wont express
it in the way which
so, it goes like this whenever I take up doing something, Id like it to come out just the way I want it to
And is it possible to make a wish for having five wishes?
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Ok. Give me two more wishes then.
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So, theyre kind of secondary wishes
I wish I could
give up smoking and start it again whenever I want
no, thats not true
and I wish I could
die exactly when
I want to
well, perhaps I should define this more precisely beforehand
No, without
any
well
I mean
sometimes you could just blurt out I want to die, but this
is said by your ego, you know; your under-ego is not involved in
that
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You dont know exactly how it is involved
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You can tell
but if you know it, then you must be absolutely sure
. you see? I mean
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This certainty
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Well these are my wishes after all!
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Yes, whats the second one
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The second one
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three wishes plus two secondary wishes make five
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I wouldnt like to
be
/inaudible/
. But still,
when you set your mind to think in this direction, so many wishes
occur to you, you get all kinds of ideas and whims
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they
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oh, its nonsense, why would I need an air raid shelter
bla bla bla
underground. Id rather have a flying saucer.
7.
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Gitannes, Absolute and more Absolute
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What?
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Lots of Gitannes cigarettes, plenty of Absolute vodka and even
more Absolute
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Absolute?!
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Blue label, if possible
8.
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Id like to know what I want
Its a really tough problem with me, I dont ever know exactly what I want. Wherever I am, I always
wish I were somewhere else; whatever Im occupied with, I wish I were doing something else
So thats my first wish
. And then
I dont know
I guess that once
this first wish has come true, Id take pains
to work out the other two wishes
Yes, I just
cant figure them out now because of this problem thats always been torturing me
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I see, you dont know
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. Thats right. I always
feel like Im standing somewhere in-between
Ive always felt out of place
. I want to find the place where I belong
and if the goldfish could help me
?
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When you were a little girl, what did you want to
?
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I wanted to be a dustman.
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That was when you were young
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Yes
so that I could find different sorts of things in the dustbins
and maybe in this way I could understand more about
people because I used to like, and I still do like to peer into
the lit up flats as I walk along the dark streets at night
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Yes, you stare at the flats on the
first floor
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Right, on the first floor /laughter/
So I might ask the goldfish to fulfill this kind of wishes
for me
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OK
thanks
9.
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What would you wish for yourself
and the people you love. Make a wish for yourself this means
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. Of course itll be for
me!
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right, for you. Because
imagine the kids would have to answer the same question, you know, what
they would like to have, you see, which means that you cant answer for anybody else but yourself.
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Id ask for ordinary things, rather ordinary actually
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Go ahead, ask for them. Whats your first wish?
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So
I want my children to be healthy
. Thats most important to me
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Yes and what comes next
?
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Next
Id like to fuck you
. and in the third place
in the third place
erm
and third
..
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Come on, say it!
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Id like to fuck somebody else too but I wont tell you this persons name
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No, dont tell me
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not in front of the camera.
10.
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Well, Id like to be the owner of Pirin Blagoevgrad football team; Id like to be the teams manager and
I want them to win the European Championship Cup
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Two more wishes
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No, Ive got just one left
the European Championship
Cup was my second wish
erm
and
the Club Championship
Cup too
I want them to win the Club Championship
Cup as well
and thats it, these are my three wishes
11.
Mateo
/speaking in Italian/
12.
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Oh, Im not prepared to do this right now
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Thats the way it should be, come ooon
.
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Nooo
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Come on, come on
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Oh stop it
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Come on
tell me one wish
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I dont have any wishes. I make them come
true all by myself. Theres just one I want CSKA to be the football champion, which doesnt really depend on me
/laughter/
I can deal with all the other things
by myself.
13.
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What do you want
for you personally
in your life
?
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I want to see Michael Jordan play
basketball live. Unfortunately, thats not possible
any longer
I had two dreams about Bulgaria and
Ive told you about them
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Tell me again
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One was to buy an album by the Army of Lovers and the second
one was to eat pastry at Rosa Bella sweet shop. Ive realized
them both. Thats why I havent got anything to look forward to here. Its not possible to see Jordan either because hes already quit playing basketball
Ive seen Metallica perform live in a concert
what can I say
What do I
want? I want to speak and write in the same alphabet as the rest
of the world thats one of my biggest
wishes
And I also wish people wouldnt take things so seriously
People shouldnt be so serious themselves
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No, Im asking about your personal wishes
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Personally
well yes, thats what I want.
I mean I want to have a social environment I can fit in with.
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I see.
14.
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Imagine the goldfish and your three
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I can tell you a joke about it immediately
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No, no, no, tell me your three wishes
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I havent got any wishes.
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Why not? What is it that you dont want then
?
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OK, heres my first wish: I dont want Ventzi Zankov
to paint a nude picture of me.
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You dont want that?
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Nooo
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What else?
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I wouldnt allow that
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Your second wish?
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in your dreams
I mean the other
two
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Is that all?
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Yes.
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Why do you look so embarrassed?
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What? Well Im not used to standing in front of cameras, perhaps
you are aware of that
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No Im not
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Hmm
. Im kidding you silly thing
15.
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Id like to meet a prince
riding a white
horse. And I want my child to do well in life. In the third place
. I want all my friends to be extremely happy.
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If there were a goldfish, they could
be
16.
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So give me your three wishes.
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Three wishes
?
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Its about
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Three wishes
? Well
my wish
is
to
. marry a very rich husband and to be able to have
all the intelligent men brought together in the same place,
communicating with each other because it gives me enormous pleasure
to watch some nice guys who complement and help each other; they
give each other inspiration and they are always up to something
new. For this reason I need a rich and open-minded husband. My second wish
Id start immediately
I have an idea for
I want to paint
some
Ive got an idea for
a specific kind of painting but Im not going
into details about it
and Ive got a third suggestion to make a film
about women, erm
theyve already stolen my idea
John Malcovich
. The camera
shows everything as seen through the eye of a woman just as it is in Being John Malcovich and various women are presented in a different state
of mind; different themes
something
something like that
. erm
I cant remember which film I saw that in, but it was fragmentary
small fragments, states; women who
erm
.. this state is
presented just
.. a woman watching the world around
her and all of this is revealed in front of the camera; its not
its not acting; theres another way that Ive figured in my
head
.. Well, thats what Id like to do now
but thats quite a
lot for me to do
. Im a bit too lazy in general
If I do all of
this, itll be
well yes, for the
time being
And as for a lifetime
it isnt
it surely isnt realistic
to make plans for a lifetime
. For a lifetime
I think itll take me
rather a long time to fulfil the plans I just mentioned.
17.
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Well, theres something I cant tell you about; its an intimate kind
of wish, and I put it as my first wish
. And its really really
. personal
What else
do I want to have?
First, I want to go away
erm
. second I want that thing Im not going to tell you about; and third, Id like
to have my own art gallery, for example
Thats all.
18.
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Right now!?
. oh! Id like to have a better intuition
and settle my affairs
. Of course, Ventzi, Id like to discover my true self my true self
integrity
..
. where
there
My wishes arent so pragmatic!
. I want to be a terrorist
.. I mean a true one.
19.
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So I must produce three wishes!?
the first three wishes that cross my mind? .. Well
I wish I could fly, for example
. erm
. Many wishes have occurred to me
but none of them is worth saying
. The other two
wishes just arent worth saying and I dont know if
. Theyre not just two, theyre a thousand
I should ask the goldfish for something
thats exclusively in her powers to fulfil
So, first, I want to have wings and to be able to fly;
second, Id like to be able to swim under water;
and third, I want to
. to
walk underground and breathe there. These are
thats all; theres nothing else. You dont need a goldfish for anything else.
/after The Fisherman and
the Goldfish/
/translation/
