Tirtha

Maguy Marin found on the beaches of Calabria the paradise that she seems to have often looked for with her performers. The subaquatic scenes as well as the foam and backwash shots or the colorful stone pictures are metaphors of the original coitus.

Worked since the origin of time, the rock, now sand and mud, lets beings that are half-reptile, half-human emerge. In rocky crevices swept by waves, males and females mate and handle each other in long-forgotten primitive rituals, gestures consisting in crawling and touching, mainly organic and animal.

On the beaches of Calabria, Maguy Marin has found the paradise that she often seems to be seeking with her dancers (Babel Babel, Eden, etc.). The subaquatic scenes, the foam and surf shots, the colourful images of gleaming minerals are all metaphors for the original coitus. The film invents that mythical place where the elements are not yet totally separated and human beings are only just emerging from their gangue.

Source : Patrick Bossatti