Humanity mirror

Concept:

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A reflection upon the position of the audience and its active role as viewers that through perception ( by seeing, reading or hearing?) lives the same experiences as the characters. Everyone in the audience perceives and relate to the story in its own way. “Humanity mirror” is a gallery of emotional responses, a collection of facial expressions apparently triggered by nothing in which the viewer can read any story.

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Development:

 

The hero journey (The hero with a thousand  Faces) by Joseph Campbell: every story follows the footsteps of myth , a universal model that is identical in every culture all over the world. Collective Memory—> everyone can relate to the hero journey.

Theatre –> the story is deconstructed in its basic phases: the audience has to build the story in their own head: the play just gives hints —> When something become a story (for example a sequence of images)? Whats the need to tell stories?

Deconstructing the audience that reacts to the view of a story (the hero journey) by filming micro-expressions that in sequence can give the sense of a story that is told by the reaction to it.

 

Inspiration:

Ingrid Bergman “The Magic Flute” overture: the author makes a whole sequence using close ups of people in the theater.

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Fil Rouge: 

In the middle screen, we see the eyes of a person reading something as a hint —> we are in the narrative world. The middle screen is always on (LONG TAKE) and the whole screening start and finish with only the middle screen.

All the other screen (people and  expressions) MIGHT be in her head (the characters in the story or the feelings she feels reading?). Those screens goes on and off creating a random pattern of emotions.