MEDIATHEK

An audio-visual symphony: "The staging of a delirium from its breaking through till a total contamination of a young man’s reality" For two screens, clarinet and cello. Concept: I like to experiment with the psychology of perception. Basing my idea on the grounding that our mind creates an experience by adding several layers of information, I thought about how to stretch our experience of a movie, a concert, a story. In my project, the several layers are faced separately, so first the music, then a theatrical and unfinished version of the story, then a full movie with its entire content. In this way, each stage of the story needs to be overlapped in the mind of the spectator, in order to reach its full expression. The two musicians (clarinet and cello) play live in the first part of the performance. Behind them, there are two screens on which appear extracts from the movie, without sound. The second and third parts, echoing the first section both in the music and in the structure; gradually reveal the mysteries of the first part of the concert with the video growing into a film with all its specific attributes as: dialogue, dynamic scenes, etc... The story is inspired by the novel "Flight into darkness" by Arthur Schnitzler Plot: Thomas is back in town after a long vacation spent in Italy to sooth his nerves. Over the course of a night, things develop tragically for both Thomas and his brother Otto, a renowned neurologist. Horrified by the story of his dear friend Hoenburg going insane, Thomas asks Otto to put an end to his life if he should ever show signs of a mental disorder. Unable to be taken seriously by his friends and acquaintances, Thomas obsesses about people’s reactions to him. His deranged mind starts to build a thick web of obsessions and misinterpretations of reality, the consequences of which are far-reaching. The sense of displacement of the main character is echoed by the approach to the story, in the way each section or version is explored and in its functioning within the structure of the full event.