An associative performance about the euphemisms surrounding torture practices.
- An associative performance about the euphemisms surrounding torture practices.
- 2015
- 35′
- percussie & video
- script, directing & music: Merijn Bisschops
- cinematography: Morgana Machado Marques
- actors: David Eeles & Caroline van Leedam
- première: Tatiana Koleva, 8 November 2015, November Music, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
An associative audiovisual performance about the euphemisms surrounding torture practices.
House of Fun haalt deze ver-van-je-bed-show dichtbij, zonder te resulteren in een verheerlijking van geweld. Een voorstelling voor liefhebbers van art house films, avontuurlijke muziek en geïnteresseerden in taal en filosofie. De video is in zijn geheel te bekijken op mijn YouTube kanaal.
The title refers to a former torture chamber in Dubai in which a person could be reduced into submission within half an hour. One example of how gruesome acts are concealed in everyday language, legislation and government policy by metaphors and understatements.
Ominous and disguising the ritual percussion music, played on vibraphone, timpani, drums, gongs and objects, guides the non-narrative monologue of the main character. He represents the perpetrator in all its forms: the interrogator, the torturer, the supervisor, the medic, the government, but also an aggressive spouse and the media. By using torture jargon and subtle humour they objectify their victim and play their invasive role in the private life of the victim. She is fully subjected to their power, except in her preserved silence.
