C I R C E
emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
marilena vita



           

            



            

            
Bienalle Light Art
Mantova, Italy 2022


        

          
 
 
          

            

Marilena Vita
Mantova 2022
          
          

            

John Williams Waterhouse
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891)
          
          

            

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
fragment of Circe (2019)
          
          
 
 
        
        

          
 
 
          
 
 
          
 
 
          
 
 
          
 
 
        
      


      
In 2019, just before
      the pandemic that paralyzed the planet, I dedicated a film, with
      one or two screenings, to a performance by the Italian artist
      Marilena Vita, a dear friend. In fact, the film is dedicated
      to her. In this film I used Meridian - a musical composition
      of mine, created in 1992, almost thirty years before.

      The film was called Circe.

      Circe is a fabulous character from the ancient Greek mythology,
      a goddess who is, at the same time, love and war.

      In Homer's Odyssey, it is Circe who advises Ulysses to delve
      into the underworld, into memory, to achieve a knowledge of life
      that would make his mission possible. Circe is not only good
      and evil, love and destruction, but mainly seduction and transformation,
      passion and discovery. Every transformation, every discovery,
      is a form of destruction that incorporates the world that existed
      before.

      This condition that implies glamour and self-consciousness is
      of such a refinement to the point of setting Circe's figure apart
      from other gods like Abraxas or Janus.

      For all that, the etymological meaning of the word Circe is "circle".

      Circe - performance and film - had, with the musical composition
      Meridian, their world premiere on May 28, 2022, in Mantova, Italy,
      at the Light Art Biennale.

      
Emanuel Dimas de Melo
      Pimenta

      

      
After the unexpected
      and bloody tragedy that the world is living with the Russian
      invasion of Ukraine, my already defined project suffered a substantial
      interference.

      
Marilena Vita

      
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emanuel pimenta

marilena vita


the film (HD)

text, pdf (English)
text, pdf (Italiano)
text, pdf (Português)