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Bloody Drops of Happiness

Here is the story

A man, living for too long on a diet of Marlene Dietrich, Maria Montez, Arabian Night stories and the films of Hollywood of the 30s - 40s, is making a home movie... an Indie... He is actually remaking Kismet, a forgotten British play from the beginning of the 20th century that was later made into a movie as a vehicle for Marlene Dietrich to show off her dancing skills... Kismet is the story of a beggar who calls himself the king of all beggars and his whereabouts in some forgotten Arabian kingdom... The man, using every means in his disposal to make the movie (aquarium, sand, tv stands, cheap china boats etc.) lets loose from time to time, his alter ego, Sinbad the Sailor. The journey of Sinbad, more a mind journey than a real one, is mixed with the making of Kismet. This mix-up is creating yet another movie "The Adventure of Sinbad in the World of Technicolor"... and it is not over yet... The story of the man, his real life story, is also being told by the man himself. This semi-documentary is about a man and his attraction to the beauties of the 30s - 40s... He studies their postures from official website photos dedicated to them copying their body position, their look, their projected filmic persona. He is creating his own harem of Hollywood stars with cheap decor and escapist backgrounds (sky, clouds, plastic palm trees and images of tropical islands). These movies mixed up, intertwined, juxtaposed or just done one besides each other are the source in the end for this man's home movie, temporarily titled "Bloody Drops of Happiness".

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How does it work

Four video cameras, four mini cameras (inclucing an underwater camera) cover the performance area. Every action can be transformed, edited and reprojected to the space. Four video beamers project the live, prerecorded and edited images into different screens and projection areas in and around the performance space. Every live action can be covered by more than one camera and able us to shoot a scene with long and medium shots, close-ups and micro-zoom. The different shots can be edited live into a movie. This form of live editing changes from night to night, creating a new "movie" each performance.

Six tv monitors are conneted to a laptop that transmits live text. The text is written live by the writer Gritt Uldall-Jessen who is sitting in the room. She writes constantly producing text that can be viewed by the audience with no special connection to what is happening "on stage". The performer Daniel Aschwanden can use the monitors to generate live text which he then will speak back to the audience in real time as the show proceeds.

Backgrounds (skies, clouds, Arabian architecture etc.), props (palm trees, sheeps, mini creatures etc.), recorded video material and found objects are all over the space. They are there to create different locations to the different actions that are taking place. These locations are created by editing the live action into the "new" space and ableing us for example to have the performer flying over clouds on a carpet or sitting under a palm tree. A blue screen area is there to serve the same function but with more prerecorded material allowing the performer to play different characters and then act against himself. The blue screen area is also there to create the different locations within the Kismet story.

Images from the live actions are being recorded during the show. Every five minutes a clip of ten seconds is being made. This clip is then being shown to the audience who find themselves watching the edited version of the action they just saw live in a five minutes delay.

-- YosiWanunu - 26 Oct 2003

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