"SubtItles"
is about two men (Black and White) and a
woman (Color) between them. Both men think
that color has been stolen from them. There
is no dialogue in the film. The thoughts
of the characters appear as subtitles similar
to a first person voiceover. On the other
hand the letter "I" appears for
one frame in different places of the screen.
Sometimes these "I's" combine with
the subtitles and
"started" becomes "I started," "stole
her from me" becomes "I stole her
from me". All
these subtitles match to both men.
The film
uses a symbolic language to divide and overlap
the male characters.
At the end of the film we go to the center
of the symbols, to an editing room, which
could exist in the head of the main character.
He is the owner of the voyeuristic look we
watch in the whole film, the composer of
the music and the emotions in the subtitles.
He shoots the film and watches it. He looses
his godlike position when he realizes that
he has been observed behind the curtain he
looks. We ?observe? him on the screen. The
first person voiceover of the film is also
vocalized by any single spectator through
subtitles as an internal voice.
"subtItles" interrogates
the parts we play in actions taken against
us.
"I" stands for the spectator himself
to connect him to the interrogation. To protect
himself, one is talented enough not to "see" and
never understand the "film".
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