THE
ACTIONS OF FRED FOREST
49
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
Theatre • Cinema • Radio
• Television • Telephone • Internet
FROM
CASABLANCA TO LOCARNO
FESTIVAL
OF ELECTRONIC ART, MUNICIPAL THEATRE, LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND
2 SEPTEMBER 1995
http://www.tinet.ch/videoart/va16/multimedia.html
In
this interactive meta-media project created for the centennial of
the cinema, the artist offers the public an opportunity to “rewrite”
the mythical film Casablanca by substituting the original dialog
with its own modern takes on love and life, broadcast on the radio.
Scenes from the film are broadcast without the original dialog and
soundtrack on the Swiss Italian channel RTSI. Instructions and lively
commentary stream across the bottom of the screen. Couples of viewers
are invited to call the Rete 3 radio station, where they are put
on hold before given 30 seconds of airtime to say their lines for
the featured scenes (participants are selected in the order that
their calls are received). The epicenter of the happening is the
Locarno Theatre, where the artist himself takes part in the collective
performance— supplying dialog for important scenes between
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, writing text messages, and initiating
visual special effect in a carnival-like atmosphere.
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