Tuesday, September 14, 23.00 Bios

Speak, Memory, Speak

by Fanny & Alexander and A.Zapruder filmmakersgroup
freely inspired by "Transparent Things" by V. Nabokov

written by: Chiara Lagani
direction: Luigi de Angelis
photography: David Zamagni, Monaldo Moretti
filming and edit: David Zamagni, Monaldo Moretti, Nadia Ranocchi
musics: Vincent Gallo
sounds and remix: Luigi de Angelis
with: Marco Cavalcoli
production: XING and TTV Festival/Performing Arts on Screen 2002

Speak, Memory, Speak is a recognition on Vladimir Nabokov's literary landscape, dealing with "apparitions" and their strange ruthless language, with a superhuman eagerness for reality. It is a video-installation for three screens, centred on "Transparent Things" by Vladimir Nabokov and on Emil Nolde's expressionist painting; a superimposition of mental geographies, suspended landscapes and research on the character.

The young chronophobiac You Person reviews his enormous prenatal abyss (he himself is a personage of one future fiction), and the even more threatening one opening wide beyond his conjectural and hypothetical future existence. He desperately tries to cling to that small scrap of reality provided by this live video's contingent nature. He is expected to accept these two black emptinesses, just like he does with the illusory and fleeting vision flashing and flickering between them. "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited". (V. N.) Do you understand? Hey, you! Person! Easy, you know, does it!...

Speak, Memory, Speak, a production by Xing/TTV, is part of the project Italian Landscapes#2 - lounge theatre (Fanny & Alexander/A. Zapruder filmmakersgroup, Ogi:no Knauss). It premiered on 2002 May 31st in Riccione, in the context of Riccione TTV festival.

Fanny & Alexander
Fanny & Alexander's theatre is based on absolute fiction, on a language inclined to lyrical forcings and never abandoned to everyday words, carved on a marble figurativeness constructing an icy mythology of feeling and transfiguring literature in a theatrical ultra-world. Fanny & Alexander give theatre an hallucinogenic, literary and monumental sign, like an extreme game, adding a sort of tenderness from the funeral imaginary and a constant courtship of childhood as a myth.
Fanny & Alexander were born in Ravenna in 1992, founded by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani. Among their theatrical productions: Hevel, morte-transizione ('92), Cantico dei cantici ('93), Ipotenusa d'amore ('95), Con mano devota (stazione lignea), Ponti in core, Vita immaginaria di Fanny & Alexander ('96), 150.000.000 Sinfonia majakovskiana ('97), La felicitˆ di tutti ('98), Sulla turchinitˆ della fata, Storia infelice di due amanti ('99), Romeo e Giulietta-et ultra, Mon coeur mis ˆ nu (2000), Requiem (2002), Alice vietato >18 anni, Ardis I (Les Enfants maudits) (2003), Ardis II (2004). They have won several prizes in Italy and abroad.

A. Zapruder Filmmakersgroup
A. Zapruder Filmmakersgroup consists of David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Zapruder's base of operations is seated in Roncofreddo (FC), on the pleasant hills by the coast of Romagna.
The concept of domicile's sickness is the starting point in its reflection on the inside and the way room is occupied, see "Spring Roll" (2001 dvcam/S8) and "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" (2003 S8/dvcam). As for the cooperation between Zapruder and the theatre company Fanny & Alexander, the project on Nabokov's "Ada", consisting of six theatrical stages with video images (when used) by Zapruder, starts in 2003. In June 2003 the video-installation "Villa Venus" (15 minutes, dvcam/S8) makes its dŽbut in Prato. In July 2003 the show "Ardis I (Les Enfants maudits)" makes its dŽbut at Ravenna Festival

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