MELIES ILLUSION
'MELIES ILLUSION' is a cine-performance inspired by Georges Méliès who is the first film director to have introduced ‘fiction’ into the world of cinema making the world’s first science-fiction movie ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’.
This piece includes Méliès’ creation made from the vision of illusion where real performance and virtual videos are converged.
A kind of cine-collage where a film (time art) and a play (momentary art) interact with each other while being reconstructed and recreated by the viewers’ interpretation.
A project with the focus on one’s point of view, attitude and direction on the shift from being a passive acceptor to being an active producer in the era of ‘Transmedia’ where the boundaries of media are blurred.
This piece includes Méliès’ creation made from the vision of illusion where real performance and virtual videos are converged.
A kind of cine-collage where a film (time art) and a play (momentary art) interact with each other while being reconstructed and recreated by the viewers’ interpretation.
A project with the focus on one’s point of view, attitude and direction on the shift from being a passive acceptor to being an active producer in the era of ‘Transmedia’ where the boundaries of media are blurred.
cine-performance melies illusion trailer & artist interview
"A road is a direction from afar..
yet mere footprints from up close."
yet mere footprints from up close."
SYNOPSIS
The show begins with Méliès’s life as a toy shop owner in “Gare de Montparnasse” after the bankruptcy of his company ‘Star Film’.
One day, Méliès finds an unfamiliar scene within the familiar landscape of his surroundings and begins to imagine his next film...
One day, Méliès finds an unfamiliar scene within the familiar landscape of his surroundings and begins to imagine his next film...
CREATOR (EG) NOTE
Desire of human, conceived by the finite timeliness, gave life to sorcery and magic, philosophy and religion, science and art. Film is a time-handling technology and a type of dimension in itself.
Lumière brothers remained within the passive reality where time is recorded and stored whereas Méliès gave birth to real virtuality that transcended timeliness by actively manipulating and fabricating time.
The element of cinema where the past, present and future are intertwined and recombined while the reality and fiction are mixed resembles the contemporary world where fusing and connecting individual context create new meanings and values as if virtual and reality are mixed.
[Melies Illusion] is not a ‘representation’ of the past but an experience of the ‘new creation’ made from different interpretations of time by segmented individuals and is a project that focuses on the gaze and attitude as an active producer, not a passive acceptor.
May be we all are staying within a certain specific time.
Where are we headed when the immovable times collide and resonate and when the movement begins?
“This performance is about seeing and being seen, and about movement.”E G
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