Multimedia acts at Geneva festival
The annual "La Batie" arts festival is underway in Geneva with the accent on new technologies and multimedia performances.
Among the comedy acts this year is “Roadmetal Sweetbread”, in which a British couple – Julian Maynard Smith and Susannah Hart – interact with a video recording of themselves, projected onto a giant screen.
Without using words, they portray the everyday life of two people who spend much of the time quarrelling and making up.
The video images of the couple compete with their live counterparts for attention, revealing hidden motives, repressed impulses, covert violence and secret passions.
Music and dance performances are also included in the festival, which ends on September 17.
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