The House of Fitzcarraldo
In 1979 filmmaker Werner Herzog attempted to pull a 300-ton steamship over a mountain under its own steam. After losing Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger and Jason Robards to dysentery, he enlisted his best fiend, megalomaniac Klaus Kinski, to assist him in pursuing his useless dream. In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective Ego of Herzog & Kinski, ponder the significance of dreams and the insanity one must invest in pursuing the useless conquest of unconscious wishes. Pulling and culling from a myriad of source texts, videos, and dreams, Buran uses its distinctive style to situate itself between high and low culture- creating mayhem, shooting cap guns, prompting sing-a-longs, and integrating a folksy existentialism- to explore our nature as beings who cannot help but desire our own dumb dreams. |
WEEK 1
The House of Fitzcarraldo WEEK 2
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