Chuqui Mamani

Chuqui Mamani is a film about perspectives that was made during the forced quarantine of the ensembles PHØNIX16 and Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) at the Rheinsberg Music Academy. 25 musicians are sitting in a theatre, they are interacting musically, with each other and with two screens in front of them, by means of improvisation. The films projected on the screens are embedded in the social body of improvising musicians as additional voices, like a 26th and 27th personality in the room. The music follows tendencies of the moment as well as traditions of musical and social interaction of the players. Occasionally there are films projected on the entire performance space, reflected by every object and person in the room. The improvising musicians, the screens and the entire space are filmed by a surveillance camera. The surveillance monitor, positioned in another room, is filmed in turn by another camera. People entering and leaving this room and the performance space are reflected on the screen of the surveillance monitor. The surveillance room, the surrounding of the camera itself, becomes a part of the film.