What Stillness Tells Me
Created by Lele Bonizzi
Written by Levi Hopkins
“There is a space between your hand above water and right below the surface. A space where you cross the threshold between gas and liquid. That in-between... what lives there?”
“A young man goes to a studio for a portrait, but as the photographer asks questions, everything is not as it seems. Using a historic photographic process, the characters and portrait develop in tandem, chemically unfolding their stories on stage. Join Tad and Ezra as they explore what it is to be remembered.”
In collaboration with acclaimed photographer Lele Bonizzi, and based off Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida,”, “What Stillness Tells Me” is an exploration of the intricate connections between photography, theatre, and mortality. An immersive experience that transforms the theatre into a working darkroom, the real-time creation of a historical wet-plate collodion tintype photograph serves as a metaphor for the development of the characters and meditation on memory and identity. How do you want to be remembered?
