Solitude Sometimes – Teatro alla Scala
The video for Solitude Sometimes, a new production for Teatro alla Scala in Milan, is the result of a collaboration between OOOPStudio and Carlo Cerri with the German choreographer Philippe Kratz, for the ballet he conceived on music by Thom Yorke, Modeselektor and Radiohead.
In this work, OOOPStudio takes the usual black-white colour scheme to the extreme, leaving much to light and allowing only a few chromatic aberrations within glitch and transition effects.
Following the sound path cut through the electronic music, the video directly and tangibly beats the times associated with dance, while admitting moments of fading and merging and others of suspension alternating with short timelapses of abstract realities. Even more than the loop, it is the fraction that gives rhythm and emphasises the resilient cyclical nature of Kratz’s creation, inspired by the Egyptian tradition of the Sun God.
