This is my recent FERA Keynote speech (London, UK BFI South Bank,September 27, 2013 145PM):
Children love playing “The Opposite Game” where “yes” means “no”, and “no” means “yes”. Politicians seem to love to play that game too…
This backwards world has infected many of our cultural fields,taking hold as an everyday concept reflected in our every action. In comics, it is known as the “Bizarro” World, a common plot scenario where our strength becomes our weakness. That is of course a fictional conceit, but in the world of cinema, we all now too truly inhabit a similar land of opposites, where what we say we love to do is not what we do at all.
