Homage to Maya is an audio-visual performance by Paolo Ranieri that pays tribute to the work of pioneering experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, exploring the themes of vision, reality, reflection, identity, and ritual. This piece juxtaposes some of Deren's work from the 1940s (Meshes Of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera). 

The camera's and characters’ movements are disassembled, isolated and re-edited in a dreamlike space. The performance acts as a vision: space becomes undefined and narration is reduced to single movements, now fragmented and altered by an apparently nonsensical repetition-and-variation effect. This is accentuated by the music: a miscellany of natural sounds and electronic glitches composed and live performed by Fernweh.

No dialogue. Approximately 55 minutes.

Bar opens @ 19:30
€6 entry

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Fernweh [www.facebook.com/fernwehartandmusic/] is an electronic musical trio from La Spezia (IT), consisting of Emiliano Bagnato (guitar, electronics), Lorenzo Cosci (drums, electronics) and Daniel Leix Palumbo (synths, electronics). Fernweh's music is a point of convergence between electronic and acoustic, study and improvisation, that aims at integrating different ideas of music and artistic backgrounds. 

Paolo Ranieri is an Italian director and multimedia exhibition designer grown professionally in Studio Azzurro in the early 90s. In 2013 he co-founded Karmachina, a Milan-based studio of visual design; they realize multimedia narrative environments, video mapping operas and audio-visual installations.