Iconoclast Game ENG 03 BIZANTINES

VIDEO ARTGAME ABOUT WESTERN ART HISTORY
The main character, which the player has to identify with in order to get past the stages of the game, is Marcel Duchamp. In the prologue Duchamp appears on a reddish cosmos background, in a double-reflection version, male and female (let us recall Duchamps female identity, Rose Sélavy created in New York in 1920, with which the artist signed various works). But death comes to kidnap the superior part of our double hero, and lets the other one drop down towards the earth. Just like in the Platonic myth, the Convito, the unity of the androgynous is broken and the fallen Marcel (or Rose) will have to complete ten different tasks inside a museum before he/she will be able to reunite with his/her other half and renew the universe in a cosmic conflagration. Inside the museum, the paintings and the sculpture (there is only one Michelangelos David) our hero/heroine meets on his way come to life and threaten him/her.
What if the destiny, not only of art, but of all of Western culture, had been decided between 726 and 787 A.D., i.e., between the destruction of sacred images ordered by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III Isaurico and the following council of Nicea, which, on the contrary, declared the lawfulness of their cult?
Images continue to have a central role even after the decline of the Christian religion as a crucial means of social cohesion in the secularised and disenchanted society which has formed in the course of modernity. The victory of iconolatry between the VIII and IX Century of the vulgar era, in other words, could have marked the West in an irreversible way.
The only way to really come to terms with the art of our past is by freeing it from the ideological and habitual incrustations, which have transformed some masterpieces into common places of a diffuse and banal culture.
Concept and Design: Lorenzo Pizzanelli
Directors: Fariba Ferdosi and Lorenzo Pizzanelli

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Iconoclast
• Game
• VIDEO
• ARTGAME
• ABOUT
• WESTERN
• ART
• HISTORY