Yana's proposal for a project that may or may not be made
I want to create a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your own bomb. It will be intertwined with other material/interviews of people talking about explosions in Rotterdam.
I will use the tutorial as part of the exploration of the bigger topic of explosions in Rotterdam. This tutorial will position my research in a larger framework which is not strictly documentary, but has elements of magical realism/fiction in it. A lot of the explosions in Rotterdam are also done through using illegal fireworks, so I think this has a DIY element to it which suits the format of a tutorial. The idea of a tutorial for a bomb came from a book I sincerely love, called Still Life with Woodpecker, telling the love story between an outlaw who bombs corporations and an ecologist princess. Through bombs, pyramids, aliens, and other peculiar subjects, the book rediscovers all these as a means to accessing the Mystery. And perhaps, this is what draws me back to this text, as in my work, no matter the subject, I want to access the mystery or the strange and peculiar in some form or another.
To make this tutorial, I would start by finding a recipe - there are a few in Still Life with Woodpeckker which were taken from The Anarchist Cookbook. Then, I would need to decide on the aesthetic to film in - should it be a hand drawn animation or a Wes Anderson symmetry obsession? I would then need to get materials, possibly substitutes to the real ones. And finally - film the tutorial.