The Cannibal – Manna Fortuna Theater
Live cinema performance l 40 min l 2018
Credits:
Direction: Aggeliki Bozou, Thanos Kosmidis
Live music: Thanos Kosmidis
Live visuals: Aggeliki Bozou
Narration: Rita Litou
Audiovisual technician: Kostadis Michael
The performance “The Cannibal” was presented at the central stage of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus, within the framework of the 2nd Young Artists’ Platform “Open Doors”, organized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Athens Concert Hall and the support of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.
It is an audiovisual performance inspired by a Greek folk tale and taking influence from the international horror film industry, contemporary art and the surrealistic films of 1930. A distorted horror film presented in live video projection, created in the presence of the public and accompanied by live music and narration.
The Cannibal is a story of action and magic, where complex psychoanalytic symbols emerge, with their roots originating from ancient Greek mythology, about Saturn eating his children. The basic element is the life and death-dipole, where the perpetrator recanting the life he gave, essentially denies the affinity of blood, thus by destroying “its other self” commits suicide. Instead, the victims, even though they have their lives taken from them, hungry for it, are reborn through magical transformations into “something else”.
