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Zachary Oberzan Your Brother. Remember?

performance

Zachary Oberzan Your Brother. Remember?

theater performance
FR 11.04.2014 20:30
SA 12.04.2014 20:30

An elaborate experiment with the concept of Before-and-After photographs, Your brother. Remember? splices and dices home videos, Hollywood film footage, and live performance. As kids in rural America, Zachary and his older brother Gator loved making home versions of their favorite films, most notably Jean-Claude Van Damme’s karate opus Kickboxer, and the notorious cult film Faces of Death.

Then twenty years passed. Estranged from his family, Zack returned to his childhood home to re-create these films, shot for shot, as precisely as possible -but now seen through a twenty-year lens of emotional and physical wear and tear. One brother became an actor, and one self- destructed. Which is which? How different are these lives? Could this story have turned out the other way around? Maybe. And what are these peculiar parallels in Mr. Van Damme's life, as it unfolded over the same twenty years?
Born in Belgium or America, the simple childhood desire for love gets confused with fame, drugs, & ambition. The liars believe their own lies, and "real-life" clashes with the "art of manipulation." But with Mr. Van Damme and renowned pathologist Dr. Francis Gross in their corner, Zack & Gator step into the ring one last time for a title shot at redemption.

In English

60 min, US, 2010

Conceived, directed, edited, performed, video by Zachary Oberzan
Light/sound/video technician Thomas Barcal, David Lang
Assistant director/dramaturgy/producer Nicole Schuchardt

A coproduction by Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2010, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Grand Theater Groningen and brut Wien.

http://www.zacharyoberzan.com

In addition to Your Brother. Remember? on 18th and 19th April 2014, Oberzan shows Tell Me Love Is Real.