DESPAIR [a journey into light]
A work in development
A performed rendering of the soundtrack of Fassbinder's film DESPAIR from Nabokov's novel of the same name.
In an attempt to escape from the rise of the far right, the lead character Hermann Hermann kills a man he thinks is his exact double to allow himself to disappear from the society around him. But his act turns out to be delusion and the relationship between film and reality blur into a madness.
This is a work in progress and made with students of the Master's degree program in Theatre and Performing Arts at the University Iuav of Venice.
With Gloria Agnello, Paolo Barberio, Martina Bragantini, Emanuele Fadigati, Eugenia Fera, Benedetta Leso, Vittoria Massucco, Yari Montemagno, Rossella Palermo, Sofia Pieroni, Paola Ricciuti, Aurora Rò and Maria Simula.
Duration: 1h 58m
DESPAIR [a journey into light] is part of a trilogy of works that reconstruct films exploring performance and disappearance. The project is called THE SCREENS and the other two films are Cammell & Roeg's PERFORMANCE and Cassavetes' Opening Night.