The first Part belonging to the Tragedy of the Faust Sandwich
'I can be real, goddamit! Just watch me!'
Public space is now a set upon which the once-touted ‘Creative Class’ of sociologist (and urban planning consultant) Richard Florida pursue experiences that they can document, or perhaps pursue documentary evidence of experiences that they don’t really have, or are at which they are not really present. Once legendary avant garde theatre and opera director Robert Wilson consults international luxury brand Lady Gaga on how to sell herself to these people. Marina Abramowicz celebritizes herself into auto-parody of being in the moment and becomes a very popular meme. Virtues are signalled whilst the world burns.
THE FIRST PART BELONGING TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FAUST SANDWICH is both the documentation of a performance and the performance of a documentation, consisting of reenacted elements of Lady Gaga’s self-reflective Netflix documentary, a Mephistopheles character composited from sociologist Richard Florida and stage director Robert Wilson, and autobiographical elements of existential angst in a middle class world dominated by real estate prices. FAUST / SANDWICH examines the nature and production of authenticity in an oversaturated, triple-curated media and social media environment.
In an attempt to counter the inexpensive and automatic over-aestheticization that grips contemporary moving image-making, this project has been deliberately undertaken in a no frills manner with more accidental set ups and a documentary camera that captures the room, citing and exploring a heritage of lo- and no-wave filmmaking.
CREDITS:
Director / Concept / Writer: Fritz Polzer
Cowriter / Producer: Glen Sheppard
Camera: Yvann Yagchi
Sound, Original music: Tomas Nordmark
WITH
Roisin Monaghan, Fritz Polzer, Glen Sheppard, Madeleine Bower, Yasmine Yagchi, Hatty Jones, Dilys Twiggs, Lotte Bloom, Leo Fawkes, Marc Gee, Nikola Badev
Public space is now a set upon which the once-touted ‘Creative Class’ of sociologist (and urban planning consultant) Richard Florida pursue experiences that they can document, or perhaps pursue documentary evidence of experiences that they don’t really have, or are at which they are not really present. Once legendary avant garde theatre and opera director Robert Wilson consults international luxury brand Lady Gaga on how to sell herself to these people. Marina Abramowicz celebritizes herself into auto-parody of being in the moment and becomes a very popular meme. Virtues are signalled whilst the world burns.
THE FIRST PART BELONGING TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FAUST SANDWICH is both the documentation of a performance and the performance of a documentation, consisting of reenacted elements of Lady Gaga’s self-reflective Netflix documentary, a Mephistopheles character composited from sociologist Richard Florida and stage director Robert Wilson, and autobiographical elements of existential angst in a middle class world dominated by real estate prices. FAUST / SANDWICH examines the nature and production of authenticity in an oversaturated, triple-curated media and social media environment.
In an attempt to counter the inexpensive and automatic over-aestheticization that grips contemporary moving image-making, this project has been deliberately undertaken in a no frills manner with more accidental set ups and a documentary camera that captures the room, citing and exploring a heritage of lo- and no-wave filmmaking.
CREDITS:
Director / Concept / Writer: Fritz Polzer
Cowriter / Producer: Glen Sheppard
Camera: Yvann Yagchi
Sound, Original music: Tomas Nordmark
WITH
Roisin Monaghan, Fritz Polzer, Glen Sheppard, Madeleine Bower, Yasmine Yagchi, Hatty Jones, Dilys Twiggs, Lotte Bloom, Leo Fawkes, Marc Gee, Nikola Badev
