Bollywood tales is a performance / video installation by Sheri Avraham and Iris Borovčnik telling the stories of three generations. The work consists of three videos, two of them capturing monologues presented on stage. They are snatches of what seems to be a longer conversation. The women are adressing but not talking to each other. Told retrospectivly, the fragments reveal the character‘s relations as well as their different geo-political and socio-economical spaces. In their intimate stories, the historical political events appear as subtle background, that shapes their self-construction.
The third video is a collection of extracts from the movie Shri/Shree 420, which was directed and produced by Raj Kapoor in 1955 featuring him as the main character. In this video work the movie is compressed to a sequence of quickly changing scenes ranging between slapstick and melodrama. The imagery is reduced to a mere scenery that is intertwined with the characters on stage. The flashing images relate to what Rubi Sircar [Liquid Homelands] named media based routes which delinks homeland from its geographical location.
Both in the video work and in the performance, the characters are generating movement within their life. The wish of leaving confronts them with a dilemma or even a conflict regarding the question of what to hold on to and what to leave behind.
Bollywood Tales is based on the short story “arba imahot” written by Sheri Avraham.
Both in the video work and in the performance, the characters are generating movement within their life. The wish of leaving confronts them with a dilemma or even a conflict regarding the question of what to hold on to and what to leave behind.
Bollywood Tales is based on the short story “arba imahot” written by Sheri Avraham.
Actresses:
Songül Somnez Zeynep Alan Dilan Senguel |
Lights:
Oliver Kratochwill Sound: Jan Wielander Camera: Reha Tasci Fesih Alpagu |