Rules of Attraction (New Waves Theater Berlin)
- Richard Wagners Hausparty (Working title)
Stage Play Recording | 2021 | Germany
Main data
| Director | Alexander Fahima |
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| Written by | Alexander Fahima (creator) |
| Production | Volksbühne Berlin [de] |
Shooting data
| Number of shooting days | 3 |
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| Locations | Berlin |
Project data
| Budget | Lo Budget |
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Brief synopsis
A bunch of friends spend the night together
• From the beginning at 9.30 p.m. to 12.30 p.m. the next morning all guests independently stream footage with their smartphones from their very personal perspectives
• The complete opera cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” by Richard Wagner will be heard in the stream as the only audio track, including a subtitling of the 9,000 lines in an English translation from 1896
• Actions of the opera are linked with the events at the party by live direction
This opéra concrète grants you entry to a slippery audiovisual territory. Here a group of friends is invited to squat Richard Wagner's monument erected out of vibrations and words. Freely navigating the open field of a house party, each guest captures a fragment of shared experience through the lens of their smartphones that is short-circuited in real-time with Wagner’s music and libretto in a 14-hour live stream. Building a disorientating infra-world of queer joy, desire and excess within a sonic-dramatic construction, this experience constitutes a non-narrative, group-determined, self-making opera with its own collective agency. Cruising alongside Wagner’s compositional technique of the ‘endless melody’, it exhausts pre-sculpted attentional forms and expands the horizon on energetic expressions. By flooding unforeseeable, corporeal, real life pleasures over a vast opera with immense range and complexity, it liquifies Wagner’s rigid and stable monolith into a stream of forms, inferences and informations flowing without hierarchy; making room for you to jump in and float along.
• From the beginning at 9.30 p.m. to 12.30 p.m. the next morning all guests independently stream footage with their smartphones from their very personal perspectives
• The complete opera cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen” by Richard Wagner will be heard in the stream as the only audio track, including a subtitling of the 9,000 lines in an English translation from 1896
• Actions of the opera are linked with the events at the party by live direction
This opéra concrète grants you entry to a slippery audiovisual territory. Here a group of friends is invited to squat Richard Wagner's monument erected out of vibrations and words. Freely navigating the open field of a house party, each guest captures a fragment of shared experience through the lens of their smartphones that is short-circuited in real-time with Wagner’s music and libretto in a 14-hour live stream. Building a disorientating infra-world of queer joy, desire and excess within a sonic-dramatic construction, this experience constitutes a non-narrative, group-determined, self-making opera with its own collective agency. Cruising alongside Wagner’s compositional technique of the ‘endless melody’, it exhausts pre-sculpted attentional forms and expands the horizon on energetic expressions. By flooding unforeseeable, corporeal, real life pleasures over a vast opera with immense range and complexity, it liquifies Wagner’s rigid and stable monolith into a stream of forms, inferences and informations flowing without hierarchy; making room for you to jump in and float along.