Inspired by Blue, Derek Jarman’s last autobiographical film, FUCK ME BLIND is a duo in which the performers share the same pivot point. In the movie, that was shot shortly before his death from complications from AIDS, the director takes on his imminent end as an active vindication of his entire existence. The International Klein Blue, dear to the film’s director and the only image in the film, becomes the input to begin a tangible research of the body in continuous rotation towards infinity. The two dancing and sero-discordant bodies use aesthetic codes that reveal a new homo-folk dance, enacting the same claim to existence as the director. Using the same non-narrative tools as the film, FUCK ME BLIND aims to create hypnotic experience against the backdrop of a homoerotic landscape.
concept and direction
Matteo Sedda
choreography and performance
Marco Labellarte e Matteo Sedda
sound
Gio Megrelishvili
dramaturgy and light design
Margherita Scalise
production
Fuorimargine - Centro di Produzione di danza e arti performative
support
S'ALA Produzione, Grand Studio, Bora Bora, FESTIVAL + DE GENRES, Pedra Dura - Festival de Dança do Algarve, LILA Cagliari, AIDS, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium, Bamp, Ad Lib - Residência Belgica LIBITUM, Thor Company / Thierry Smits, oester, Destelheide e Théàtre de Vanves
Project selected for DNAappunticoreografici (IT).
duration 30 min.
A classificar pela CCE
Matteo Sedda (Sardinia, 1990) began his dance career with the Troubleyn company, taking part in various productions, including Mount Olympus/24h and the solo piece The Generosity of Dorcas. He has collaborated and worked as a freelance performer and choreographer for various artists, including Enzo Cosimi, Aïda Gabriels, Igor x Moreno and Dag Taeldeman & Andrew Van Ostade. Since 2018, Sedda has been an artist-activist against HIV/AIDS. As a person living with HIV, he conducts body-based research marked by resistance. By re-appropriating languages from different disciplines and drawing inspiration from deceased GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) artists, his choreographic research aims to turn to the past to create narratives that resonate with the contemporary present.