CLIMAX
an episodic live cinema research project
Climax: L' amour de Phobia premiered in Manila, Philippines, March 2009.
Climax: Phobia / Stigma / Camouflage will premiere in Kino Šiška in Ljubljana in November 2011.
ABOUT
CLIMAX is an episodic live cinema research-project consisting of many reiterations and incarnations.
It is presented as a collective performance, assembling artists and musicians together to create interpretations of the various episodes. CLIMAX allows us to re-imagine and re-question our changing realities and our collective subconscious through the structure of a non-linear episodic projection:
PHOBIA/ STIGMA / CAMOUFLAGE / PANOPTICON / IDENTITY / VACUUM / PSALM.
Climax is a visual research subtly treading the thin line between a documentary image and subjective or lyrical narration. Unlike cinema essays, the potential of realtime performance augmented by various live cinema performance methods is the emphasis of generating a unique cinematic creation, viewing-listening experience.
Climax researches the phenomena of present time and its influences: the collective consciousness: systems of control, rhizomatic growth and spread of the internet and giants like Google, freedom, privacy and censorship in the information age, the symptoms of decline of capitalism (economic crisis as opportunity), the rise and fall of public figures and beliefs… to the growing cult of individualism, contemporary diseases and personal fears, facing them with obsolete and contemporary values of friendship, love, freedom, family, etc…
Climax is interested in the necessity of the cartography of our collective desires and the nuances of our common experiences. By doing so, we intend to present Climax as a project that maps out connections, allowing ideas from various cultures traveled to cross-pollinate, and create new and interesting possibilities.
Climax is a pseudo-narrative about the contemporary pseudo-individual.
It is a poetically atheistic psalm built with the daily fragments or slices of life experience, unforgotten dreams, unattainable desires and the persistence of memory.
CLIMAX is a collaborative project by artists Martin Bricelj Baraga and Tengal Nolasnem.
CLIMAX: L' amour de Phobia premiered in Manila, Philippines.
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