MEDIATHEK

L’nferno - Re-Animation of a Silent Film
 
Delving deep into Hell’s nine circles of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Paradeiser create an inter-medial performance with noise-choir, a Foley artist and a video artist. They re-animate the 1911 Italian silent film “L’Inferno” with a live actor and lyrics by Dante Alighieri and contemporary author Daniele Benati’s, “Cani dell’inferno”. Is there really a hell below? Are we all gonna go? The right path seems lost and all of a sudden we find ourselves in today’s world.

They juxtapose Benati’s modern day personal Hell with the century old film-Hell of an Italian directorial team. The combination of actor, choir, Foley artist and re-animated film on stage creates an entire (under)world from text, soundtrack, atmosphere and illusion.

The artistic upcycling of the film reveals the theatrical charm of early effects and editing techniques, as astonishing and sometimes depressing references to the (media) images of our time.

Nothing stays the same - and yet it does. A new media way of “riscrittura dantesca”.