MILOS SOFRENOVIC // Monologue of Two Worlds ( performance film excerpt )

Performance film LOST ALBERTINA
Artistic Statement:
Live movement, performed and perceived in the present, is actually a temporal experience, in a sense of, that once executed, it is constantly analyzed and processed through revisiting of past experiences. Through my dialogue with Marcel Proust's capital work "Remembrance of Things Past", I discovered a strong relationship between three discourses of Memory, Movement and Monologue. This performance film "Lost Albertina" investigates this relationship as it is being established and questions it. The following questions became the structural building blocks upon which this solo performance in 12 scenes is based :
1. Is it possible to revisit the realm of past physical movement in order to reach a Proustian state of timelessness?
2. Can movement be assumed to exist only as remembrance?
3. Can movement be re-lived or re-experienced in order to make it last forever?
4. Can we reach and experience a metaphysical level of existence through movement?
5. Can the conceptualization of bodily action make thought a physical reality and movement a cognitive reality?
by Milos Sofrenovic
Stage direction, choreography and performance by Miloš Sofrenović
Text re-translated and spoken by Sheila Sofrenovic
Performance film directed by Mladomir Purisa Djordjevic
Camera and editing by Miodrag Misa Milosevic
Musical concept/ arrangement/ text dramaturgy by Milos Sofrenovic
Music composition/ arrangement/ sound engineering by Jan Vysocky
Costume and stage design by Milos Sofrenovic
Sound by Stevan Milosevic
Produced by Nikola Lezaic
This performance film is dedicated to the loving memory of ex-Yugoslav composer KSENIJA ZECEVIC ( 1956 - 2006 )
Duration of the complete performance film is 63 minutes