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Oblit Èxode - Sis confluències en el temps 3
Oblivion Exodus - Six Confluences in time 3
Open and free activity with a limited capacity of 55 people
OBLIVION 2023
"I have heard the earth complain. What did she say? She said: Men have grown arrogant, every day they give me fresh wounds, there are more and more of them. They are violent, driven by thoughts of conquest. Foolish men trample me. I shudder... and I ask myself, what will they do next?"
The Mahabharata. Adaptation by Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière, 1989.
PROGRAMME
NOW I BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF THE WORLDS.
Perro Loco, 8 minutes.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 In the dead silence of the morning, at 5 h 29 min 45 sec, the first atomic bomb exploded in a desert area of New Mexico known as La Jornada del Muerto. "We knew the world would never be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the lines from the Bhagavad Gita (Mahabharata) in which Vishnu says: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los ALamos Laboratory where took place the atomic research Manhattan project.
MIRAGE OF DREAMS
Observatori de Vídeo No Identficat - Desorg punt Org, 25 minutes 2012 / 2023.
Fragments of a broken mirror. To recompose the reflection.
EN TORNO AL MAHABHARATA, CONVERSATION WITH JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE.
Abu Ali, Stefano Casella, Toni Cots, 2012, 18 minutes.
"The Mahabharata is the epic poem of oblivion; of forgetting the source".
SEMBRANDO SUEÑOS
Elio González, 2011, 6 minutes.
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” George Bernard Shaw. Some images from the 2011 protests at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. "These are just some impressions, which I have etched in my mind. With all my respect to the people who have acted in accordance with their beliefs and gathered in this square for days. And to Antonio, warrior of words who shares his outrage with all those present".
