Museu da Marioneta

Schedule: 6 May at 11.30pm and 00.15pm – 7, 8 May at 11pm and 11.45pm
For audiences over: M/8Time: 30 min.Language: Without wordsTechnique: Puppets and video
Reservations: CAMa – 212 427 621
Paulo Duarte offers a poetic and visual universe that touches and interrogates the ways of how the memory is created. How memories are created? How do they differ? How can a single event to recount and transforms itself?“Alminhas”: a Portuguese popular expression that designates a monument at the roadsides to mark an event. In the expression “Alminhas,” the metaphor of the road brings the movement, the glow of thought and the memory in transformation, the imagination in march.The spirits go, the objects remain. Small souls at the roadsides trying to score the spirits of the living, leaving the trace of a person or an event, violating our sense of time. ” Petites Âmes” plays with this metaphysical and creates a fleeting eternity …In the stage, a metaphor of an anonymous altar, a character moves through his own memories. The use of video programming allows it to confront with their own memories: the past and the present. The images recorded during the performance are broadcast at different times of the show, to create disturbances linked to his memory: what you has just seen is modified (of meaning and space) by the projection.Observe the beautiful anonymous character evolve in their own memories, in a fascinating encounter between the video projection, the puppeteer and the puppet…
Idea, set design and puppeteer: Paulo Duarte Direction: Paulo Duarte and Renaud Herbin Collaboration: Julika Mayer
Ciclo: FIMFA LX10 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms