Aztec Economy Projects: BATTLE plays

An examination on the masculine and feminine psyche-in-crisis. BATTLE plays employs an elaborate mixture of video and soundscape to explore the relationship between isolation, obsession, live performance, American Myth, and popular culture. 2 mediums. 2 performers. 2 American Classics reconstructed in 60 minutes.

bring me the head of john ford - approx. 30 min

Confined in an area of 6 X 6 feet square, Fid enacts a ritual of mono-maniacal obsession with a classic Spaghetti Western. Like a director’s commentary gone mad, Bring Me the Head of John Ford is both a humorous and dark examination of cinephilia and the oedipus complex on the frontier of culture in America.

a one-man, one-act production that uses 5 video source projection and live performance to examine the effects of isolation, obsession, and the relationship between fantasy and reality, voyeurism and spectacle, and the male psyche-in-crisis

antiGone with the wind - approx. 30 min.

Sara is trapped in a basement in suburban Atlanta. A chorus of barking dogs breaks a part a series of scenes she must enact to purge herself of her memory and enslavement.

Mixing densely layered audio sequences including voiceovers, classical scores, environmental compositions, battle field sound effects, and a chorus of barking dogs, Antigone With the Wind is a one-woman live performance that explores mythology and American culture through the prism of the feminine psyche-in-crisis. Like a psychological audio-book of romance, fantasy humor and suffering, this short performance plays out on a thin peripheral boundary and meditates on slavery, isolation, and sound.