CLIMAX: STIGMA

»I burned the sky. It was the right thing to do."

CLIMAX- STIGMA is a piece about the dark side of love between two lovers who seek, kill and love one another through a series of episodes. Climax is a live cinema project by Martin Bricelj Baraga and Tengal.
Each incarnation of CLIMAX Project is different according to the space it is performed and context.
Video and music are often prepared few days in advance and therefore are site specific although there is always a basic episodic structure of previous recordings.
CLIMAX: Phobia was shot in Manila in 2009 and CLIMAX Stigma is shot in Ljubljana and Budapest in 2011.

http://motamuseum.com/Production/Performances/climax

About:
CLIMAX is an episodic live cinema research-project consisting of many reiterations and incarnations. It is presented as a visual research and a reflection not only on how we interact via social media but also how we consume visual data, this data being memories. Questions not meanings are often forgotten, but what is retained? CLIMAX aims to work within this gap, visual memory is enhanced with sound, the audience is confronted with an investigative cinema in a participatory sense.


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 allows us to reimagine and requestion our changing realities and our collective subconscious through the structure of a non-linear episodic projection:
(PHOBIA / STIGMA / CAMOUFLAGE / PANOPTICON / IDENTITY / VACUUM / PSALM)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• fim
• cinema
• live cinema
• performance
• concert
• video
• art
• documentary
• fiction
• essay film
• video object
• real time
• suspense
• horror
• mystery