Don’t Look At Me, Close Your Eyes
Format: Film (two channel video installation)
Premiere: 10 Aug 2021
Venue: Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel, as a contribution to the durational performance Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum
Language: German (subtitled)
Duration: 30 min, looped
Premiere: 10 Aug 2021
Venue: Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel, as a contribution to the durational performance Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum
Language: German (subtitled)
Duration: 30 min, looped
Direction, text, edit: Chris Gylee & Aslan
Funded by: Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the frame of NEUSTART KULTUR
Funded by: Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the frame of NEUSTART KULTUR
Don’t Look at Me, Close Your Eyes is a two-channel video installation (duration: 30 minutes, looped). It has been commissioned by Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel as part of a collections of 18 performative solos that will be presented together in a former supermarket in the new town of Flensburg. As pre-recorded and looped film figures, we appear as online 'ghosts' amongst the other live performances.
During the lockdown, the interface with our screens suddenly became vitally important — WhatsApp / Signal / Telegram with friends and family, Zoom or Skype for work, Instagram instead of travel, online HIIT classes instead of swimming at the city pool. A whole life, but streaming. In Don’t Look at Me, Close Your Eyes we exhume the emotions (both good and bad) that have been provoked in us.
The above images include stills taken from Don’t Look At Me, Close Your Eyes.
Don’t Look At Me, Close Your Eyes is a ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS production, commissioned by Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel as a contribution to the durational performance Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum.
Additional thanks to: the team at Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel; Alexander Piasente; Daniella Miotto.
Don’t Look At Me, Close Your Eyes is a ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS production, commissioned by Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel as a contribution to the durational performance Wo Wir Lebensmittel Liebten — Ein Zwischen Raum.
Additional thanks to: the team at Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel; Alexander Piasente; Daniella Miotto.