"La Tentation de Saint Antoine, mais je m'appelle Dimitris. Six Questions ..." | Fast Forward Festival
December 8th, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
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Production
Aristoteles Universität ThessalonikiThessaloniki
Co-Production Company
Fast Forward FestivalTheaterplatz 201067 Dresden
Cast / Crew
Paulos DidaskalouDimitris Kapetanios
Captain Stavros
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"La Tentation de Saint Antoine, mais je m'appelle Dimitris. Six Questions ..." | Fast Forward Festival
"La Tentation de Saint Antoine, mais je m'appelle Dimitris. Six Questions You Need To Answer If You Want To Become A Saint
By Dimitris Lolis
Greek with German / English surtitles
Cooperation with Staatsschauspiel Dresden
"The Temptation Of St. Antony By The Devil" has preoccupied artists since the Middle Ages: Matthias Grünewald, Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and Gustave Flaubert, who took 25 years to write his novel of the same name. Inspired by Flaubert’s philosophical and literary interpretation of the material, Dimitris Lolis pursued his own version of the ‘temptation’ in his final project for the directing department at the University of Thessaloniki. Based on modern life in a big city and the pair of opposites “loneliness” and “encounters”, for Lolis the concept of temptation becomes a synonym for the paradoxes of interpersonal communication. In seven chapters and six questions, he creates a winding path around a riddle that is poetic both in terms of words and images: Does every saint seek the desert? Does the temptation of the saint consist of the withdrawal from or the distraction of loneliness? Is communication, touching the other our biggest desire or biggest nightmare? Or does the temptation lie in the fact that the world can never be the way humans design it?
During the lockdown, Lolis’ production became a theatrical arrangement for the camera and editing techniques. In Captain Stavros’s reference-filled scenographic universe, Lolis and actor Dimitris Kapetanios perform a philosophical discourse, stage, deconstruct, build up and down, and speak to another person who is no longer in the room: in yearning expectation of a physical meeting.
Concept & Direction: Dimitris Lolis, Stage Design & Scenography: Captain Stavros, Editing & Cutting: Paulos Didaskalou, Editing Sound: Dimitris Kapetanios, Dimitris Lolis, Music: Dimitris Kapetanios, Dimitris Lolis, Production: Aristoteles Universität Thessaloniki, Production Video: Dimitris Lolis, Production Photos: Pavlos Disaskalou, Assistant Director: Ani Valougeorgi, Ioanna Kanellopoulou
With: Dimitris Kapetanios, Dimitris Lolis.
Duration: 75 Minutes
Facebook: @Dimitris Lolis
Instagram: @dimi.low">@dimi.low
Please note:
An exhibition version of "La Tentation de Saint Antoine, mais je m'appelle Dimitris" is being prepared in the digital department of the Berg Van Kunst Gallery. On an imaginary mountain top in the Swiss Alps, visitors can use a personal avatar to move freely around an installation of the video performance divided into shorter clips. The exhibition will take place on Mozilla Hubs and in English. The gallery can only be accessed by a limited number of visitors at this time. Should there be difficulties in accessing you can try again a few minutes later. The link for your exhibition visit: hub.link/QVAL9Dc
Partner
Production
Aristoteles Universität ThessalonikiThessaloniki
Co-Production Company
Fast Forward FestivalTheaterplatz 201067 Dresden
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