MEDIATHEK

// Synopsis //

Conrad faces a trial before a jury, the audience. He must revive a trip all over again and for a thousand times he must enter into the darkest of darkness and be able to return unharmed and innocent. This is not a far away story, it is not far away from the geography of a continent that was plundered. The corruptible territory is the human race itself. Its body can rot, and it’s not necessary to be dying because it’s just a matter of urge to destroy. Once again, in the name of development and civilization, man chooses the worst nightmare, and those who could stop it from happened, they ended being the face of terror.
For this society, "the others", the monsters, they are not a faulty product, they are its most sophisticated creatures. And “we”... we are a well-intentioned majority, we wash our consciousness by being terrified of the horror.
We baptize the Monster in order to excommunicate him; we sent him far away because we do not want him near our children... but at the same time we keep him close thinking maybe we can get same advantage of his vileness. But, above all, we demand the monster discretion, we don’t want to know what he does because if we knew we won’t be able to eat, we won’t be able to sleep... we really want to continue with this endless party.
The one who is able to penetrate into the heart of darkness, he cannot return selfcontrolled, even if he returns, he won’t be the same. Now his soul is just clothes hanging on a chair.


// Staging conception //

If that “unfortunate episode in the history of the Congo"... is there anything else to be told? This journey into the heart of darkness is the performance itself. The time is now, and Conrad is the battlefield.
Two forces, two vermins are confronted in a battle for this new soul. On one side of the fight there is the intriguing possibility of free will, and on the other side, it lands the impure but familiar civilization (A civilization that condemns evil but at the same time she collects its juicy fruits). Before the jury summons him, Conrad must give an explanation and he must try to get away unharmed of the circles of hell.


// Music conception //

This work is primarily musical. We considered that music is the accurate language to express emotions when words are not enough. Kurtz, the mythical character of this story is played by a bass. The horror, the terror, the darkness, the loneliness and death, are some of the ideas that contemporary music manages to transmit.