If we're going to look at other crazy 70's movie dream sequences, I'm sure there's something from Jodorowski ("The Holy Mountain" or "El Topo") that would fit the bill. He totally blows my mind. Just check out the Wikipedia on him.
"Alejandro Jodorowski...is a Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist."
He now practices something called "psychomagic". "Psychomagic aims to heal psychological wounds suffered in life. This therapy is based on the belief that the performance of certain acts can directly act upon the unconscious mind, releasing it from a series of traumas, some of which are passed down from generation to generation." What?! Awesome!
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We are in a place and time when we don’t really know who we can trust. There’s something scary and supernatural playing out in regular life. You can’t see it, you can’t prove it, but you know it’s there. What would it mean to escape the anxiety of your own mind into a different reality? You would need to find a place to escape to. A beautiful pink world, a snowy world, the coldness of the desert, the emptiness of space and a little blue dot. What a beautiful thing to be isolated in a vast landscape, filled with wonder, and you don’t feel lonely at all.
Hand2Mouth presents a speculative performance in 4D. It’s more magical if you don’t know how it works.
Uncanny Valley mandate:
Let’s play with the audience’s memories and with our own memories, and use the mechanism of live theatre to identify and explore memory as the very essence of what makes us human.
Theatre is a time-based art, a memory machine, let us use it not to show or tell, but to strive for the impossible goal of manipulating and inhabiting memories on stage with an audience. Let us do this to spark our own memories, and to trigger those of the audience, in order to provoke reflection about the slipping away of time, and the relishing of present moments that will soon become past memory. Let us do this in a kickass psychological, sonic, poetic, and physical way that can only be done onstage via song and spectacle.
In Uncanny Valley, we create a radically new theatre experiment that is based on the process and intoxication of the phenomenon of memory.
EVOLVING CONCEPT (now outdated)
Let’s play with the audience’s memories and with our own memories, and use the mechanism of live theatre to identify and explore memory as the very essence of what makes us human.
Theatre is a time-based art, a memory machine, let us use it not to show or tell, but to strive for the impossible goal of manipulating and inhabiting memories on stage with an audience. Let us do this to spark our own memories, and to trigger those of the audience, in order to provoke reflection about the slipping away of time, and the relishing of present moments that will soon become past memory. Let us do this in a kickass psychological, sonic, poetic, and physical way that can only be done onstage via song and spectacle.
In Uncanny Valley, we create a radically new theatre experiment that is based on the process and intoxication of the phenomenon of memory.
EVOLVING CONCEPT (now outdated)
Hand2Mouth presents a speculative performance in 4D. It’s more magical if you don’t know how it works.
CONTENT
- Anxiety & loneliness
- Escapism
- Creating specific new worlds -- multiple realities
- Primitive/everyday/simple vs. Technological/supertech/complicated
- Technology & tools: simple / complicated, human relationship, incredible things it allows to happen.
- Fundamental humanity, human-ness -- focusing on this, not on the aliens
- Little Prince
- Pregnancy
FORM
- Episodic structure: what links the worlds is slowly / surprisingly revealed
- Throughline, elements or journey that links stories
- Creating specific new worlds -- multiple realities
- Sensuality, hyper visual, trippy
- Pushing to a level of intensity, proficiency (physically, performatively)
- Extremes of quiet, extremes of loud -- dychotomies between different extremes
- Bending reality -- bread skitters across table
- Surprising audience: sudden reveals, cliffhangers, messing with expectations
- Grand opera
- Anxiety & loneliness
- Escapism
- Creating specific new worlds -- multiple realities
- Primitive/everyday/simple vs. Technological/supertech/complicated
- Technology & tools: simple / complicated, human relationship, incredible things it allows to happen.
- Fundamental humanity, human-ness -- focusing on this, not on the aliens
- Little Prince
- Pregnancy
FORM
- Episodic structure: what links the worlds is slowly / surprisingly revealed
- Throughline, elements or journey that links stories
- Creating specific new worlds -- multiple realities
- Sensuality, hyper visual, trippy
- Pushing to a level of intensity, proficiency (physically, performatively)
- Extremes of quiet, extremes of loud -- dychotomies between different extremes
- Bending reality -- bread skitters across table
- Surprising audience: sudden reveals, cliffhangers, messing with expectations
- Grand opera
- PROUST
Swann's Way [1922]- Within a Budding Grove [1924]
- The Guermantes Way [1925]
- Cities on the Plain [1927]
- The Captive [1929]
- The Sweet Cheat Gone [1930]
- Time Regained [1931]
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1 comments:
oh man oooooooh man you brought Jodorowski into it!
Maesie, what you probably don't know is that in 2004-05 we made a show called Jimmy Blue which was HIGHLY (and I do emphasize the high) influenced by El Topo. That show later became Blue. Man. I'm going to find some video of Jimmy Blue and post it here. It featured a Bee Man, tiny stilts, puppet versions of actors, a giant set of scaffolding, and a character in giant stilts known as PESTILENCE.
Oh man. Let's talk about it. At the time I had a hard time getting into El Topo (I still like to say BURY YOUR FIRST TOY, AND YOUR MOTHER'S PICTURE randomly, just for fun) but it makes sense to return to it now.
It's interesting, we were talking yesterday in rehearsal about how it's only sci fi movies that seem to have those long establishing shots of Man in Desolate Place, but then I realized that you also see this a lot in westerns. ESPECIALLY Jodorowski. I didn't know about hte term PSYCHOMAGIC. I love it.
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