The Escape - memymom | Croxhapox | 2012
ENG
The story of a younger woman who’s non-fiction has become pure fiction. An imagined sequence fulfilling the need to escape.
The visual stories that Lisa & Marilène bring, give you a double sensation. On the one hand you have the impression that you are straight away in the story or situation, partly because of the whirling representation that is reflected in both the moving and the photographic images. But on closer inspection you notice that there’s many ‘little stings’ hidden inside. Loveliness and despair, joy and fear, loneliness and intimate contact, ...they all flow seamlessly into one another.
‘The Escape’ literally plays in a borderland between high tide and low tide, with the sea on one side, although very tempting, yet not offering a way out. And on the other side, the land where the ‘real’ life takes place.
There where ‘Les extremes se touchent’: between dream and reality unfolds a battle to escape out of the straitjacket in search of a freedom that others brings along other confrontations... or life itself with (literally) trial and error.
CREDITS
Productie: Croxhapox & memymom
Concept & Curator: memymom
Scenografie: memymom