Homage to Maya

 

Teatro Rossi – Pisa – 30th june 2017

 

 

By using the resources of music and film editing, whose explosive creative and not naturalistic potential the author used to exalt in her writing, Homage to Maya juxtaposes some of the works made by Deren in the 40s.

The camera and characters’ movement are disassembled, isolated and re-edited in a dreamlike and not-realistic space. The performance acts as a vision: just like it happens in visions or in dreams, space become undefined and narration is reduced to single movements, now fragmented and altered by an apparently nonsensical repetition-and-variation effect. the juxtaposition between the films scenes and the editing fractures is accentuated by the music, a miscellany of natural sounds and electronic glitches composed and live performed by Fernweh.