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DELFI (studio per suono, voce, video e buio) / DELPHI (study for sound, voice, video and darkness)

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DELFI (studio per suono, voce, video e buio) / DELPHI (study for sound, voice, video and darkness)

DELFI (studio per suono, voce, video e buio) / DELPHI (study for sound, voice, video and darkness)

theatre

Parma, Festival Teatro 2, 1990
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Emptiness, silence, but above all, pitch black. The scene has gone dark, making it impossible to make anything out. Two screens are connected to two infrared cameras which move like eyes, and their gaze guides the spectator through the darkness, following the actor’s every move.

The cameras try to make sense of a space which is full of statues who are waiting to return to a new level of perception, to a new form of sensitivity. It is a drama that seeks clarity and the essential.   It is an attempt to place the profane aspects of technology within the confines of poetry.

2 synched video programmes
2 displays 50'
2 IR cameras IR
2 readers 3/4
lighting project
35 plaster casts of statues and architectural elements

Production Teatro 2, Parma
Concept Fabio Cirifino, Piero Milesi, Moni Ovadia, Paolo Rosa
Director Paolo Rosa, from a text by Ghiannis Ritsos
Direction collaborator Luca Scarzella
Photography and lighting project Fabio Cirifino
Video filming Mario Coccimiglio
Live IR cameras Riccardo Apuzzo, Elmar Bartlmae, Maryo Ferwerda
Video editing Cinzia Rizzo
Sound and music Piero Milesi
Collaboration in sound and music Davide Rosa
Actor Moni Ovadia
Executive production Carola Aricò