MODERN OPHELIA SHORT (IN THE MAKING)

WAITING FOR GODOT INSTALLATION COLLABORATION

Waiting for GODot© 2011

interpretation installation by architect Satish Krishnan + Marcella Leone

waiting for GODot © 2011 DIRECTED: SATISH KRISHNAN + MARCELLA LEONE

PROPOSAL:

An installation film that takes 'the metaphysical nature of The Waiting for GODot play by Samuel Beckett, where in short, it tries to establish the nature of the relationships.' the basic premise is to create a 10-15 mins rendition of the play, whereby the reflective condition of the current capitalism/ consumer soceity debate that is questioning the entire existence of man, reveals itself in script shared by the two characters, Satish and myself, and yet in visible different time zones. Two 'live' video feeds, Satish in Madras, India and I, in London, with backdrop as projections, the frames next to each other on the screen with close cuts and frames. ref: Requiem for a Dream 'Bed Scene.' to create a sense of unification and yet division of time and mind, reflective of our current circumstance of an insecure value system.

LOCATION:

MADRAS-beach: : mass construction, whilst the poor sleep on the beach at night and make for the rich people who stroll the river.

LONDON-river :the rubbish dump of goods, that wash away on the river bed, in low tide, as consequence of consumer nature.

POETIC CONCEPT FOR SCRIPT:

plastic notions through bubble pink coloured eyes

tainted realms of ill advised members of society

consumer-ist society in all its amputated parts

here lies an arbitrary to the realised state

to the cross pollination of aesthetic values to the rise of the falling star

consumerism entertainer of pleasures and accommodator of all sorts

enemy of the existence of primal instinct instinct: star of the show

affiliate to the exit of humanity the merger of the real state and false value

to be plunged into the depths of flaccid dreams and wet concoctions of fake sentiments

the last strands of unforsaken childhood sink into the stale waters of human value

the multiplication of colourful attributes of the soul to sing an abode to the false petals of time

REF: WAIITNG FOR GODOT/ AUTHOR SAMUEL BECKETT

Synopsis:

Absurdist/existential play about two characters(Vladimir + Estregon) who await for someone of the name Godot, who in fact never does arrive. a play of nothingness.

'.....the meaningless bleak setting of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, whereby the narrative debates the existence of life in the protagonist’s wait. The very first words of the play are Estragon’s words ‘Nothing to be done’, repeated several times ‘There’s nothing we can do’. Estragon says ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.’ Many times Estragon says ‘Lets go’, but Vladimir always reminds him that they can’t as they are ‘Waiting for Godot’. This inability to act renders Vladimir and Estragon unable to determine their own fates. Unable to act, they wait for someone or something to act upon them.

As Camus stated in The Myth of Sisyphus [p.117 1983]:

The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between be- ing and appearing. In accordance to Albert Camus coined term of the ‘Absurd’ in The Myth of Sisyphus this is a performance of The Theatre of the Absurd, where humanity holds the absolute absurdity of existence in its lack of intrinsic purpose. In a tale of comparison with Sisyphus, man is condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a moun- tain, only to see it roll down again, and in the realization [08] of the absurd one asks himself, should one consider suicide?

[07]And Camus replies‘No. It requires revolt.’ Camus writes on ‘Absurd’ creation as a description of the world’s experi- ences, freed from hope and done ‘for nothing’. As Camus stated in the chapter, ephemeral creation in The Myth of

Sisiyphus [p.98 1983]:

If the world were clear, art would not exist...Thus, I ask of absurd creation what I required from thought---revolt, freedom, and diversity. And so, creation in an ephemeral manner can live in a mo- ment, reflective of human condition and phenomenology, which ‘fundamentally has no more importance than building for centuries’. And in Camus’s motto [cited in Davis p.179 1997]:

Oh my soul do not aspire to immortal life but ex haust the limits of the possible.'

-extract from MArch. Research Thesis. author/ marcella leone (in the plight of an architecture of ‘Nothingness’ post war cinema as a critique of existential architectural theory )

Ref: Requiem for a dream

≠03 PICTUREBOOK OF DYSTOPIAN TRUISMS: ESTATE CULTURE

LIFE© 2011 A STATE OF MIND SHORT: SITE LOCATION

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LIFE© 2011 A STATE OF MIND SHORT: STATEMENT

LIFE_{© 2011}

_{A STATE OF MIND}

LIFE SHORT © 2011

DIRECTED: MARCELLA LEONE

DESCRIPTION:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

-ARTICLE 01.UNITED NATIONS OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

And in the words of Dom Helder Camara [1909-1999] Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife or 'Bishop of the Slums' and social justice humanitarian:

without justice, love and happiness will always be a great illusion

LIFE is an experimental short that plays on the raw urban context of London’s council estate culture and the architectural brutalism, that has become and is a social identity of LONDON Life, in the shadow of the recent summer riots. The ESTATE as a PRISON.ISOLATION UNIT and WAITING ROOM for LIFE in its repetitive and non-individualistic state. A platform into the social justice system that delves into the ‘no future’ mindscape of today’s society, made of homeland battlefields, consumerist idealism and youthful broken notions of fraternity. An escape, from the concrete confinement of social class to the liberation of incarcerated thought, in the daydream of a forest, ridden by thoughts like ghosts and the false truisms of mechanical flowers. A fine line between the real and imagined states of mind, and the restraints of social class and freedom of action, life and thought cross boundaries.

I am determined, the government is determined that justice will be done and these people will see the consequences of their actions. And I have this very clear message to those people who are responsible for this wrong doing and criminality, YOU will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punsihments. And to these people I would say this, you are not only wrecking the lives of others, youre not only wrecking your own community, youre potentially wrecking your own life too

- David Cameron (on summer riots). 06 Aug. Downing Street.

SYNOPSIS:

Words to describe Space and State.

A youth crosses the concrete wasteland of an estate. She passes the common factors of these raw ridden urban communities. A worn down laundrette, the sign as it peels off, with the disdain of society. An off license where kids, go in their hooded tops, to grab a bottle of coke or whatever. The betting shop, where a group of men crowd outside, in the hope to cling onto some monetary hope. A library, as an old man struggles down the ramp alone with his trolley filled with books, he clings to a fountain of information.

Enclosed each time by the physical confinement of narrow corridors and roughened and darkened by the coarse concrete the estate is made off, she continues on her way home, as in any other day, her walk is as it always is, the same with the same corners and the same characters. With each mundane fragment of an ordinary life, LIFE in a concrete state captured on camera.

Arrival at the blue door. Like the rest. Same colour. Same Door. Same LIFE. Narrow corridors. Cold. Kept. And controlled. The nuts and bolts of the place on show, as it were. Sat solemn in front of the box, waiting in a controlled manner and yet in an unkempt state of mind. The previous scenes come on screen on repeat, as it were, like the repetition of LIFE. Then scenes of the MindState come to the screen, as the line between the real and unreal state cross pollinate. And no doubt, the eyes close shut and we go with slurred stillness into the daydreams of this ‘numbered’ member of society. In a tale of escapism, that only exists in dreams, she deadens her thoughts in her dreams in a perpetual downhill spiral. And awakes, to realise something has to change. This time she escapes, in reality: LIFE.

REFERENCE: DOM HELDER CAMARA, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND COLLECTIVE STAND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

DOM HELDER CAMARA [1909-1999] ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF OLINDA AND RECIFE

O1.'WHEN I GIVE FOOD TO THE POOR THEY CALL ME A SAINT, WHEN I ASK WHY THE POOR HAVE NO FOOD THEY CALL ME A COMMUNIST'.

O2.'WITHOUT JUSTICE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREAT ILLUSION'

THE SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE. 1971:

ON THE INJUSTICE OF POVERTY WITHIN NOT ONLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BUT THOSE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TOO. THE RICH DO NOT FEAR TALK OF AID YET ABANDON THE IDEA OF 'JUSTICE, RIGHTS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES'.

'HOW CAN THE MORAL PRESSURE BE BROUGHT INTO ACTION IN ORDER TO STIR CONSCIENCES AS A PRELIMINARY CONDITION FOR A CHANGE OF STRUCTURES-IF ACCESS TO THE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, TO RADIO AND TELEVISION, IS FORBIDDEN WITHOUT FORMAL PROHIBITION BUT BY SECRET, BUT EFFECTIVE ORDER, IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY?.' SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE

RISE TO THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT VIA THE MEDIA. THE MEDIA IS THE GATEWAY TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND YET COLLECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO STRUCTURAL CHANGES WITHIN THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS, THROUGH AUDIBLE AND VISIBLE THOUGHT PROCESS.

'ALL HUMANS ARE BORN EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS.' [ART. O1]

REFERENCE: ALBERT CAMUS, MAN WITH GOD AND MAN WITHOUT GOD

Albert Camus [1913-1960][french author, journalist + philosopher]

'In his essays Camus presented the reader with dualisms: happiness and sadness, dark and light, life and death, etc. His aim was to emphasize the fact that happiness is fleeting and that the human condition is one of mortality. He did this not to be morbid, but to reflect a greater appreciation for life and happiness. In Le Mythe, this dualism becomes a paradox: We value our lives and existence so greatly, but at the same time we know we will eventually die, and ultimately our endeavours are meaningless. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless). In Le Mythe, Camus was interested in how we experience the Absurd and how we live with it. Our life must have meaning for us to value it. If we accept that life has no meaning and therefore no value, should we kill ourselves?'

the outsider 1942. by Albert Camus.

afterword: ‘Meursault is not a reject, but a poor and naked man, in love with a sun that leaves no shadows. Far from lacking all sensibility, he is driven by a tenacious and therefore profound passion, the passion for an absolute and for truth. The truth is yet a negative one, a truth born of living and feeling, but without which no triumph over the self or over the world will ever be possible’.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus

THE REVELATION OF MAN WITH GOD:

IN CONFESSIONS: ST. AUGUSTINE PROMOTES IDEA OF CONNECTION BETWEEN MAN AND GOD IN RELIGION. CAMUS, AN ATHEIST, YET AWARE OF THE ABSENCE OF PURPOSE WITHOUT GOD. GOD AS MAN'S' SALVATION AND MEANING'. PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR CONCEPT OF THE ABSURDIST PHILOSOPHY OF ALBERT CAMUS.

ESCAPISME (IN FISH TANK 2009)

ONE GIRL. ONE COUNCIL ESTATE. ONE BAD RUN. ONE LIFE. ONE DECISION: ESCAPE.

THE STORY OF ESCAPISME. ESCAPE FROM THE RAWNESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION

INTO A STATE OF CONTROLLED DECISIONS.

FACTS:

O1. 4 MILLION PEOPLE: COUNCIL ESTATES [ENGLAND]

O2. DYSFUNCTIONAL COMMUNITIES

O3. RESULTS: SUMMER RIOTS 2011

For years now, too many people have remained unaware of the true nature of life on some of our estates. This was because we had ghettoised many of these problems, keeping them out of sight of the middle-class majority. But last month the inner city finally came to call, and the country was shocked by what it saw.

-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS [IAN DUNCAN SMITH]

GOD DEPARTMENT INSTALLATION

GOD DEPARTMENT FULL PLAY HERE

INSTALLATION: 24/7 PRAYER: 24-30 OCT. 2011

CATACOMBS OF ST ALDATES. OXFORD

GOD DEPARTMENT CONCEPT:

WE ARE ALL THE SAME AND YET ALL DIFFERENT

(UNDER GOD'S NAME)

WE ARE ALL JUST A NUMBER [IN A WAY] IN THE WAITING ROOM:LIFE

CAN YOU DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN US?

01.INDIVIDUAL MUGSHOT :

diversity of sex/religion/race/nationality/profession/social class

02. GROUP LINE UP

particular features of 'mugshot' individuals

pin point specific attributes to the same features (ie eyes/ears/hair/feet/legs) that

compose us into human beings

ARE WE ALL THAT DIFFERENT?

01.INDIVIDUAL MUGSHOT

02. GROUP LINE UP

+ ISBN:_MARCELLA LEONE [BUSINESS CARD]

WE ARE ALL THE SAME AND YET ALL DIFFERENT. WE ARE BUT A PRODUCT OF SOCIETY. A NUMBER IN THE CAPITALIST MARKET. HAVE WE ALL BEEN BOUGHT? OR ARE WE STILL FREE TO BE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK WITHOUT LOOSING OUR SENSE OF MORAL VALUES?

THE WAITING ROOM [FOR EDEN] SHORT: REWIND TO EXISTENTIALIST RAWNESS:

FULL SHORT PRESS PLAY

Buckle Up.
Destination: Eden
Journey Time: 3 minutes

Everybody is condemned to freedom - Jean Paul Sartre

Awake or Asleep
Eden is a state of mind
Eden as a false statement
You choose Eden

Eden
The Essence of Nothingness
An absent architecture
A space of Impression
Feeling is fact
An architecture of Nothing and yet everything

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fistful hand that reared him - A modern Utopia. HG Wells. 1905.

≠01 SHUT EYE [short]

FULL SHORT PRESS PLAY

An explanation of the oeuvre:

A psychological exploration of false truisms in reality versus the creative ones in the imagined with a deep vein in surreal-ism based on the supernatural premises of a horror film. An escapisme from the solid form to the mental state of mind. The transition between the real and imagined worlds and the blurred boundaries are unravelled, from The Waiting Room [for Eden][to rebel against the notion of idealism in modern society and religion. And to applaud the small fundamentals of our existence.in reference to existentialism that emphasises the existence of the individual person as free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will] to the liberation of incarcerated thought.freedom in all shapes. in the imagined external forest sequence ‘thoughts’ as ghosts with the false identies of mechanical flowers. May we lay to rest our ‘thoughts as ghosts’ now or forever hold our peace?

dystopia in UTOPIA [MECHANICAL FLOWERS CONCEPT]

A GUIDE TO SELF LIBERATION MANIFESTO

Sartre once said, [La Nausea.1938} in a time between battlefields:

Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist.

Today, in a soceity of homeland battlefields, consumerist idealism and youthful bro- ken notions of fraternity, whereby religion no longer chain us to our morals, we live in blurred worlds of true and false realities in what we hate to call our best friend, the media, I am

AGAINST: the greed driven identity of the economical/moral consumerist in soceity false thoughts of the best products of soceity’s mainstream ‘supermarket’ shelves. judgement/justification of alternative creative ideas

false notion that imagined states of anti moral behaviour via the media, is a hindrance to the collapse of soceity

FOR: the self liberation of the consumerist soceity. the creative self driven by independant forces, detached from ideological, economical or social ones art for arts sake. art does not have an obligation to soceity but an obligation to the self. true instinctive self. the abstractions in art come alive in intuition. falling in love with an idea and not knowing why the creative idea as valuable, because you value them. their value is based on sensation not rationalization the realization of our beautiful futile existence in everything we create. this is our consciousness. this is our limit. religion doesnt say it for us.the earth

already does it for us

and I say now :

I do not want to shock. I want to provoke. I do not follow. And I do not want to be an existentialist. But i do want you to be true. We are here once. I do not want a reason to do. to think and talk. I want to feel and I want to create. Liberated from the epidemic social/consumerist greed. I create. Go and live out loud. And forget me not. My name is death.

01 FUCK DEATH

tell death to go to hell.

02 LIVE FOREVER start living your thoughts. hold them tight. don’t let them go. be a free agent: make choices of the will.

Go fast. Live Forever Carpe diem.

03 OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

let ‘thoughts’ not become ‘ghosts’ but truisms in the absurdity of reality. See it as it is. If you do: Speak now or forever hold your peace.