2021
APOKÁLYPSIS
A theater-choreographic and cinematographic project by Taanteatro Companhia
Directors: Maura Baiocchi & Wolfgang Pannek
Choreography and voice-over: Maura Baiocchi
Texts, camera, edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Performers: Mabalane Jorge Ndlozy, Canderlaria Silvestro, Mônica Cristina Bernardes
APOKÁLYPSIS is composed of 3 parts:
1 – Hamlet in Necropolis
29 min. Brazil, 2021.
Performer: Jorge Ndlozy
Voice: Maura Baiocchi
Poem: Wolfgang Pannek
Camera: Wolfgang Pannek
2 – Ophelia of Ansenuza
32 min. Brazil, 2021.
Performer: Candelaria Silvestro
Voice: Maura Baiocchi
Poem: Wolfgang Pannek
Camera: Micaias Crespin
3 – [Te]chthonic Ophelia ‘
35 min. Brazil, 2021.
Performer: Mônica Cristina Bernardes
Voice: Maura Baiocchi
Poem: Wolfgang Pannek
Camera: Wolfgang Pannek
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‘Hamlet in Necropolis’ is the first part of APOKÁLYPSIS, a theater-choreographic and cinematographic project of Taanteatro Companhia. A meditation on death in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and a poetic protest against a disastrous government health policy. The filming took place in São Paulo, at the Vila Formosa cemetery, the largest necropolis in South America, and in an immense ravine of earth and clay, the result of deforestation and the filling of a hill in the Atlantic Forest in São Lourenço da Serra/SP.
‘Ophelia of Ansenuza’ is the second part of APOKÁLYPSIS, a theater-choreographic and cinematographic project of Taanteatro Companhia. The film evokes the uniqueness, beauty, and delicacy of a South American ecosystem in danger of destruction, the Mar Chiquita Lagoon (or Mar de Ansenuza) in the interior of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, one of the world’s largest water lakes and flamingo habitat, at risk of extinction.
‘(Te)chthonic Ophelia ‘ is the third part of APOKÁLYPSIS, a theater-choreographic and cinematographic project of Taanteatro Companhia. The film deals with the exploration of fossil resources located in the depths of the Earth, a planet reduced to resources by a capitalist ideology of techno-scientific progress. Filming took place in a granite quarry in Itapecerica da Serra/SP.