ALTAR BOY AND HIS SINS
Three 16mm projectors + Two film loops sculpture + Digital live sound
Music by LeChatelier
A luminous ceremony in which the film abandons the limits of the screen and, amid fire and smoke, desire and sin are celebrated. The projectionist assumes the role of the altar boy, addressing the act of projection as a ritual gesture: the image becomes confession; the cinema hall, a space of passage. The codes of the mass are rewritten from a queer and critical perspective.
Altar boy and his sins is a film-performance that combines analog projection intervened in real time, live sound, and scenic action. Structured in three acts, it reconstructs the fragmented memory of an ecclesiastical childhood. Ceremonies, revelations, and whispered confessions unfold through a flickering, unstable image that overlaps, decomposes, and resists narrative linearity. The dissolution of traditional editing gives way to a perceptual drift, where recording time and playback time coexist and contaminate one another, generating a hybrid temporality.
Three 16mm projectors form the technical core of the piece. The operator intervenes in the beam of light, playing with loops, filters, and lenses in real time, giving the devices a scenic presence. This role, in dialogue with the figure of the officiant, makes visible its performative nature, inhabiting the space through ritual gestures. The live manipulation of analog mechanisms, together with the musical compositions of LeChatelier, turns the projection into a shared act in which the connections between cinema, liturgy, and memory are brought to the forefront, reactivating the ceremonial character of the cinematic experience.
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