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Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance
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Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance
DocLab

Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance

Sister Sylvester
United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands
2024
60 min
World Premiere
IDFA on Stage, IDFA DocLab Program & Competition, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction
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Synopsis

The title of this interactive installation of course refers to the famous Marxist playwright, whose dream was to create a “scientific” theater that would demonstrate for his audience the evils of capitalism, and incite them to revolution.

In Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance, Sister Sylvester explores the politics and potential of this scientific theater in relation to contemporary microbiology, through a hat stolen from the costume collection of Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble. Sylvester traces the possible wearers of the hat using forensic and archival methods, and the audience learns about the first-ever biohacker experiment, creating a documentary in a drink.

Sister Sylvester uses new technologies to make visual essays and installations. IDFA previously featured her performance The Eagle and the Tortoise, which used live music and film to explore the history of the bird’s-eye view, and Our Ark (co-director Deniz Tortum), a short film about attempts to create 3D archives of creatures and other things lost to the climate crisis.

Drinking Brecht: an automated laboratory performance is co-presented with Onassis ONX.

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Credits
60 min
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Spoken languages: English
Director
    Sister Sylvester
    Sister Sylvester
Production
    Sister Sylvester
    Sister Sylvester
Co-production
    Onassis ONX
    Onassis ONX
Sound Design
    Murat Çolak
    Murat Çolak
Music
    DM R,
    Ellery Trafford
    DM R,
    Ellery Trafford
Screenplay
    Sister Sylvester
    Sister Sylvester
Narration
    Sister Sylvester
    Sister Sylvester
Screening copy
    Sister Sylvester
    Sister Sylvester
Technical artist
    Marin Day,
    Murat Çolak,
    Bruce Steinberg,
    Jeremy Kadetsky,
    Andrew Kircher
    Marin Day,
    Murat Çolak,
    Bruce Steinberg,
    Jeremy Kadetsky,
    Andrew Kircher
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Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance

Drinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory Performance

DocLab
Sister Sylvester
2024
60 min