'Murderer's House' - University of Victoria

R.R.: So you‟re a storyteller in the sense that you are not judging what happened. You
are just presenting it.
H.S.-B.: Yes.
R.R.: Her last question is: “Were you trying to move discussions of feminism, history,
and memory to a new level in this film?”
H.S.-B.: Yes. I think film is a wonderful tool to stimulate people. Film, in the way I
want to use it, should be stimulating, and give not only information, or just emotion, but
it should give them a complex and wonderful sight [view] of the world. And this can be,
in this film, putting together pieces [of different media] like fairy tale, and documentary,
and fiction, like in a mosaic…different colours also…This can also happen in a very
strictly told story. It‟s not a question of form; it‟s a question of truth. A search for truth.
It‟s not a question of whether there are dragons or coffee glasses in the frame. It‟s not
important. It‟s important that the sense of what is happening is true. And truth is also
always a very complex thing. As you can see from the yin-yang structure, it is a complex
thing. There is always a point of black in the white and a point of white in the black. It‟s
always turning. The black replaces the white and the white replaces the black, like day is
replaced by the night and night is replaced by the day. Summer is replaced by autumn,
and autumn is replaced by winter, and winter is replaced by spring. That is the way our
lives function. In a way, when it‟s summer, we have the impression that the world is
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