Wu Tsang has curated several films that have inspired her work on Carmen. Today we screen the television episode Carmen y la libertad (1996).
Hired by the Andalucía Opera Consortium, the controversial Stage Director Stephan Lupasko arrives in Seville to organize a special staging of Bizet’s Opera Carmen. In the midst of developing this daring production, Lupasko becomes ill and goes to a Swiss sanatorium. From there, through videoconferencing, he continues directing the innovative production of the legendary Carmen. Following the process of this production, the documentary reflects on the situation of women in Andalusia.
Accompanying the film, we organize a talk on the Carmen myth by the artist Predo G. Romero. You can buy a combi-ticket to visit both the film and the talk.
Tickets
13.00 / Film screening: Carmen y la libertad
15.00 / Talk: Pedro G. Romero: Carmen, the degenerate genres
17:30 / Film screening: Carmen y la libertad
Language: Spanish with live translation into English
Carmen and Carmen
From 20 December to 12 January, award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist Wu Tsang presents Carmen and Carmen: a film installation, along with a program of films, talks and performances, that together explore the myth of Carmen in conversation with her collaborators.
Artist Pedro G. Romero will analyze the paradox of Carmen in an in-depth lecture tracing its roots from Pushkin’s poem The Gypsies – one of the sources of the Carmen myth – to an exploration of language and jargon within Carmen’s narrative. The myth of Carmen – the famous fictional character from literature and opera
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