A Vida Enorme/episode 1

A Vida Enorme/episode 1 is a work thought as a film which sound track and image are separate from each other and offered to the spectator one after the other.

A Vida Enorme/épisode 1 is a work thought as a film which sound track and image are separate from each other and offered to the spectator one after the other.

The first part (the sound track), is a dialogue between a man and a woman. Both of them speak to each other from poems of the Portuguese Herberto Helder. The place from which they speak (the street, the bedroom) enters the poetry “sampled” in French and Portuguese. Flashes from David Bowie ‘s Heroes are broadcasted from time to time, crushing the first sound track. This sound gesture is a movement that forms a common horizon for the two protagonists, like a refrain. The man and the woman come next and inscribe their presence on the stage in two autonomous ways that sometimes combine to each other. Their physical weightiness is alternately crude and unsteady and imprints its own story.

I wanted to have different strata work together : the separate strata of sound and image, the superposed strata of the physical and spiritual poetry of Helder and of the rock utopia of Bowie, and the juxtaposed strata of the cutting made for the language and then by the bodies.

A Vida Enorme/episode 1, tries and creates a scattered story, using the cinematographic tools conveyed to the stage and yet without any image projected. In this story the language and the body celebrate the flesh of the world and its opacity.

Source : Mùa website : http://emmanuellehuynh.fr/index.php/en/creations/100-a-vida-enorme-episode-en