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, scenic action, and live sound accompaniment. Structured in three acts, it reconstructs the fragmented memory of an ecclesiastical childhood. Ceremonies, revelations, and whispered words unfold through a flickering, decomposing image that defies narrative linearity.
Three 16mm film projectors form the piece’s technical core. The operator intervenes directly in the projection process, manipulating lenses, loops, and filters in real time. This role, dialoguing with the officiant figure, shifts its usual function toward a performative realm.
Developed with LeChatelier, the sound design acts as a counterpoint to the image. Its irregular rhythm breaks with the logic of synchronization, establishing a subtle misalignment between hearing and seeing.
Contrasting with classical narrative, the proposal presents itself as a scenic situation exploring the frictions between cinema, liturgy, and the body. The live activation of analog mechanisms questions inherited forms of ritual, memory, and representation.
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