Raluca Croitoru

"Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity." (Eccl. 1:2; 12:8) ‘Vanitas’ portrays four, unemployed characters in the future: a singer, a what-naut, a gamer and an office building. Revolving around the characters’ observations, it wonders about the transient and often meaningless seeming nature of human activity.

Expanded cinema performance with 16mm film loops, 35mm slides, spoken word, vocal distortions, synthesizers and wind instruments. It explores how time manifests in the body and how we connect to the lives lived before us, captured through recorded media. The piece transgresses moments and memories, merging the immediacy of live experimental music with the layered potential of poetry, suggesting uncharted possibilities within each moment.

Expanded cinema performance with 16mm film loops, 35mm slides, spoken word, vocal distortions, synthesizers and wind instruments. It explores how time manifests in the body and how we connect to the lives lived before us, captured through recorded media. The piece transgresses moments and memories, merging the immediacy of live experimental music with the layered potential of poetry, suggesting uncharted possibilities within each moment.

Film by Raluca Croitoru