Medusa

127 East Congress Street,Tucson AZ 85701

20 September, 2021

Description

Medusa Romane and Clemence are between 25 and 30 years old, they are sisters and live together. Romane has to look after Clémence, who is disabled since they had a car accident, when teenagers. Romane was not hurt, but Clemence had a cerebral vascular accident which lets her completely unable to speak and to walk in a normal way. One night, while Clemence is asleep, Romane decides to go out. That night, she will get back home late with Guillaume, her new boyfriend. Day after day, Guillaume will gradually feel invested in a duty : make Clemence recover her speech and the use of her legs. But over the days, the complicity between Clemence and Guillaume will become more and more unbearable for Romane. Playing with Oops! 2020/ 10 min/ Australia/ Experimental Walter Benjamin imagines a theatrical scene where an act of family violence is interrupted by the arrival of a stranger. He uses this story concept to describe the mechanisms of epic theatre. Oops! is a literalisation of Benjamin's concept. The look of the stranger renews the look of the viewer, shocking them into seeing a scene of impending violence anew, from the perspective of an interloper who sits outside the ideological context of the narrative. Oops! imagines three different stories of conflict within contemporary Australia. It considers the power relations between class, race and gender that are played out in household settings and experiments with the interrupting techniques of montage as well as Benjamin’s intruding stranger. Oops! was made with a crew of almost all women (11 out of 12 people).