PRIMA L'IMMAGINE POI IL TITOLO

Teatrino Clandestino
Prima l'immagine poi il titolo
special project Netmage 03.

When I was a child I was afraid of the dark, in the darkness I saw forms and figures appear and it scared me. For the longest time I continued to have a fear of the dark and the images that it contained. This was until I was around 18, then I started to live with these apparitions which are not really apparitions in my sleep, or in my dreams, but ghosts of my waking hours. Not hallucinations. To be in front of the darkness, the darkness itself transforms into the projection screen of my internal visions. In the darkness I can see that which the veil of light stops me from seeing, and stops everyone from seeing.
The term enlighten usually means to gain access to a new vision.The ability to see that which was previously in the darkness. It might seem strange, but I have found more visions in the obscure, in the darkness. It is there that the subjects comes to light, so that I can then take them with me on the stage (I think that it is an attitude at the extreme of extroversion).
In the darkness it is not the glowing images of the world outside that come towards you, what appears are the images that you project into the world. You could say that this way of things is neither natural nor realistic, but in the end it is hard to say what it is.
Now in this little world of fear and visions, I feel an affinity to the kind of fear represented in The Mother Assassins, with Medea who is the prototype, and more than anything else I am an Ogre.
(Pietro Babina)

Prima l’immagine poi il titolo (First the images then the title) is a technical excercise in which we try to reproduce (not for the sake of making a copy, but to give an impression) the visual process of my cinema of darkness. The dramaturgy comes in behind the technical because this is the way this experiment needs to be. The intent is to take things to a point of even more extreme sharing and confusion, the real in a human sense and unreal by means of the projected image, pushing theatre towards two dimensions and the projection towards three dimensions.