WHERE
WHERE
The Brick Theater, Brooklyn
The Brick Theater, Brooklyn
DIRECTED BY
Doris Mirescu
WHEN
December 2013
BASED ON
Paris nous appartient 1961 by Jacques Rivette
STARRING
Paris Belongs to Us is a multimedia performance and installation reimagining Rivette’s labyrinthine 1961 film—a murder mystery steeped in paranoia, art, and political unrest. The piece unfolds in a contemporary Paris populated by a young woman-detective in search of the truth; a troupe rehearsing Shakespeare’s Pericles; a political refugee; a femme fatale and a theatre director; a lost recording; an unfinished play; a love story intertwined with hidden plots, dark secrets, moments of comedy, and sudden ruptures. Several of the performers were former students of mine from the School of Visual Arts.
The staging relied on three live feeds, operated by three actors embedded within the action. Their images were projected onto the front wall of the set, partially obstructing the audience’s direct view of the main playing space. The narrative unfolded simultaneously inside and outside the theatre, creating a shifting geography of truth, illusion, and surveillance—echoing Rivette’s own fascination with what lies just beyond the edges of the frame.
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