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berlin
bonanza
teatro da
politécnica | duration 1h10 | tickets 10 € /
5
€
saturday _ 24 may 19h e 23h | sunday
_ 25 may 19h e 23h
in english with portuguese subtitles
Bonanza is a unique film portrait of an abandoned mining
town. Once inhabited by over 6000 miners, traders, adventurers
and prostitutes and boasting 36 saloons and 7 dance halls,
it now is home to 7 permanent residents. In search of solitude
and spirituality, they find a world in miniature, with
its share of accusations, gossip, murder and fear.
Cities where you get to know all of the residents are rare.
But in Bonanza it is possible. Berlin portrays this microcosm
using a scale model of the city and five television screens.
The screens present the citizens of Bonanza, the scale
model gives the audience a lively experience of distances
and proportions.
Bonanza is the third part of the Holocene
cycle (the current geological period), a series of portraits
of towns and cities that also covers Jerusalem (2004),
Iqaluit (2005) and Moscow (2009). Berlin presents these
documentary videos in theatrical settings, minutely planned
and directed. Bonanza was selected as one of the best theatre
performances of Flanders and the Netherlands in 2007. The
jury report says: “Bonanza has no live performers, but
is definitely theatrical. Although many theatre companies
currently draw inspiration from film, Berlin takes this
tendency to its extreme. The result is impressive”.
concept berlin [bart
baele, yves degryse, caroline rochlitz] | photography bart
baele, nico leunen | sound engineer tom
de with | editor bart
baele | soundtrack & mixing peter
van laerhoven | research berlin,
nico leunen | graphics gerjo
van dam | scale model koen
de ceuleneer | support and execution scenery tom
van de oudeweetering | catering kim
troubleyn, veronique batens| subtitling sofie
benoot | software development frank
lanssens | electronics dadaelectronics |
aerial photo’s saguache
ranger district | set photos set
photos kim troubleyn | production berlin |
co-production
stuk leuven, kvs brussel,
vooruit gent | support flanders
audiovisual fund, flanders image, city of antwerp | support
presentation lisbon ministery
of culture of the flemish community e next step – programa
cultura da união europeia
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