MEPHISTOPHELES eine Grand Tour

Under the name of the demon that tempted Faust, Mephistopheles (dispenser-of-lies according to a possible Ebrew etimology), Anagoor puts together the video material collected between 2012 and 2020 in a journey in images through the tears of the world, with an electronic live set by Mauro Martinuz.

Mephistopheles (he-that-hates-the-light according to a possible Greek etimology) is a Grand Tour on the dark areas of the cosmos, where darkness and generations’ sufferings originates, along with man’s relationship with nature, eros, his fellow creatures, time, technique and the absolute: the impossible.

The cinematographic footage for plays like Lingua Imperii, Virgilio Brucia, Socrate il sopravvissuto, Faust and Orestea is made up of images prophetically taken in different museums, temples, nursing homes and in intensive farming areas, among butchers, shepherds and pilgrims, in India, in Iran, in Olympia, in the injured countryside of Veneto and on the Vesuvius. 

This massive amount of unedited images is newly put together in this flight and fall, in the form of a concert cum figuris.

Source: www.anagoor.com/mephistopheles

Thanks to the collaboration with the performing arts centre Centrale Fies in Dro, the Anagoor theatrical company returns to Trentino with a Grand Tour that explores the dark zones of the cosmos, where darkness and the suffering of generations spring up together.

MEPHISTOPHELES
eine Grand Tour

Written and directed by Simone Derai

Music and live set
Mauro Martinuz

Editing
Simone Derai

Direction of photography
Giulio Favotto

Assistant director
Marco Menegoni

Production Anagoor 2020

Coproduction
Coproduction Kunstfest Weimar*, Theater an der Ruhr**, Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee / Museo Madre***, Centrale Fies, Operaestate Festival Veneto. In collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Orto botanico and Villa Parco Bolasco - Università di Padova.

*supported by Thuringian Ministry of Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation; **supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia; ***funded by POC Regione Campania 2014-2020