Phase 4: Systems of Death (The Wild & the Violent)
SL: Your past work with wounded predators—tigers and raptors—seems to be a physical manifestation of your philosophy. Does the "predatory spirit" represent the only force capable of resisting the "Systems of the Death"?
AZ: I don't like the words 'spirit' and 'spiritual.' They conceal the musty scent of human religiosity. I trust only pure animal instincts, not 'spirit,' 'soul,' and 'mind.' Ultra-sensitive instincts are the ultimate Mystery! The true cosmic map of the most rebellious journeys and wildest adventures is our eternally strong and always free body. The wondrous flesh of the most mysterious Risk and ever-present, incessant Danger. What lies within the flesh is far more important than myths, stars and eternities. Not the brain, but muscles! Muscles are our best thoughts. Bones are more honest than reason. Shit is more majestic than the Absolute. The skull is everything! I have spent almost my entire life among birds of prey and other predators. This is a wild environment of utterly free and rebellious life force. I have saved many wounded birds from death; nursed them back to health and released them into the wild. And here is my conviction: The purest and most tender love is created from the most hidden predatory instincts. The purest instincts lie deeper than the Unconscious itself. Therefore the loneliness of animals and birds is lonelier than the loneliness of man. Animals understand freedom and revolution better than people. Animals & plants are the highest revolutionaries! Out of Nothing! From the beginning we stand with the animals in Absolute Revolution against any type of human system of Diktat. Only the freest, most sensitive, and strongest instincts are capable of truly resisting the most cunning, sophisticated, and ruthless 'systems of death.' Free and ultra-honest instincts against the deceitful 'spirit,' 'soul,' and 'mind' of Death.DM: Your films are very blunt and focused. I’ve never been convinced of the validity of "cinema" as an artform—it was compromised by commerce right from its inception. But film in its raw form can be powerful. Unfortunately, how do you get people to see it nowadays? It just gets lost in the clusterfuck of nonsense on the internet. Are your films shown at events? Performances?
AZ: I immediately recall the words of the merry fellow Guy Debord: 'The cinema, too, has to be destroyed' (laugh). My rebellious 'experimental films' have been screened primarily at various anarchist film festivals in India, the Netherlands, France, and America. Particularly significant was the screening in honor of Emma Goldman in New York, with the legendary Ben Morea and his 'Black Mask' (an influential anarchist art group based in New York City's Lower East Side). My cinema (Ⓐcinematograph) is a rebellious alchemy of eternally youthful freedom: libido + mortido + destrudo + orgondo = rebellious Eros. Here I experiment with the most daring, fearless, and unruly forces of life. In my revolutionary films, I resolutely strip away all 'superficial politics,' but reveal deeper and more profoundly the pure, instinctual biology of rebellion. I am interested only in the secrets of the most unruly and irreconcilable instincts. The main question is always the same: how to instinctively convince 'youth' to always side with free liberty and not with 'coercive dictatorship.' All revolutions of Chaos and bombs of blind Eros are always beforehand useless if they are followed by the same radical dictatorship and the same iron policy of Diktat. Yes! The main problem is that today you can't find anarchy in anarchy itself. Anarchy is controlled even better than order. Chaos is controlled even more well than law. Anarchism is no longer a panacea against the pathology of dictatorships. Moreover, anarchism itself is trying to become a dictatorship, namely the third, fourth, fifth waves of hyper-reactionary fascism. A little more artificial intelligence—and the future anarchy will become more totalitarian than Totalitarianism itself.
