Pompeii
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Pompeii
by Edith Podesta (AU/SG) and K. Rajagopal (SG)
4 Jun, Sun, 3pm
Trapped in a bomb-shelter following a cataclysm, a narrator tells us the story of an apartment block in which the lives of its seemingly ordinary residents were anything but. A still-life painter ponders the permanence of objects; a husband and wife negotiate the vastness that had grown between them within the confines of their tiny apartment; an old Franciscan comes to terms with the death of his wife, and forms a relationship with a child whose life is just beginning. As they hurtle towards their inevitable end, the apartment is transfigured into a museum celebrating the beauty of quotidian human banality.
Written and directed by Edith Podesta with filmmaker K Rajagopal, Pompeii, is a live-cinema experience that explores the archaeology of intimacy. Toggling between the artifice of a live soundstage and the meditative expanse of slow cinema, the work questions the ways in which we navigate the real and artificial versions of ourselves and if the objects and spaces that we leave behind in death betray our true nature.
There will be a post-show talk with the directors of Pompeii after Saturday's performance.
Educational Kit is available for Pompeii here.
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1h 30m, no intermission
Recommended for audiences age 13 and above
