Venice Double Feature

Creative Direction and Video & Projection Design for Live Cinema

Venice Double Feature, the third in The Deconstructive Theatre Project’s live cinema performance series, adapts Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice into a live cinema meditation on voeurism in the modern day. The performers work as a collective using live feed video cameras, miniature sets, radio play and Foley sound techniques, and a live orchestra to both perform and film the story of the writer Aschenbach and his obsession with the youthful Tadzio in Venice on the eve of the Plague. The disparate live elements of the performance are unified into a cohesive experience on a large cinema screen hung above the playing space.