7 AGAINST THEBES (1994)

 

"During the ride we heard the screen rip
And watched the images crash into each other
The forest burned in EASTMAN COLOUR
But the voyage had no arrival NO PARKING
At the only crossroad Polyphemos
Controlled the traffic with his one eye
Our port was a dead movie house"

This performance is a fusion between Aiskylos "7 against Thebes" and the text of
Heiner M∏llers "Landscape with Argonauts". Aiskylos drama describe a city in moral dissolution as the enemy besieger the city and stands outside the seven gates of Thebes, and further the blood-stained logic of the civil war. "Landscape with Argonauts" is the last part of M∏ller's "Lost Coast Medeamaterial Landscape With Argonauts" and describes the western civilization-process as a conquest.

Performers: Jan Grønli, Erik Øksnes, Sverre Willberg, Nina Woxholt, Corinne Campos, Vanessa Baird, and the reporter Erling Borgen as reporter/messenger, on the monitors.

Some of the video-cuts is made by the filmgroup SAGA and the art group TRIO, both from Sarajevo. Video editing: Asle Nilsen, Lisbeth J. Bodd, Inger Johanne Byhring.

Sound: Audun Strype, Morten Pettersen
Music: Biosphere
Direction: Lisbeth J. Bodd, Asle Nilsen
Concept/text editing: Preben Faye Schøll, Lisbeth J.Bodd, Asle Nilsen

 

 

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