A Film by Roscha A. Säidow.

This film is inspired by the motives of the Opera Diptych „A Cockroach‘s Tarantella / Zolle“ by Du Yun. We transform from one state of being into another, a constant creation of life and past / present / maybe future.

Premiere: Oct 27th 2022 @Skirball Centre for Performing Art, NYU

Directing / Camera / Edit: Roscha A. Säidow
Poem: Du Yun
Music: Du Yun, with parts of the Album „A Cockroach‘s Tarantella“ by Du Yun and JACK Quartet
Sound Scape: Roscha A. Säidow
Cast: Du Yun, Anne Schirmacher
Costume Design: Roscha A. Säidow
Costume Fabrication: Theatre Lucerne

„The half-way point between the operas was Fervent for Life, a film set in a forest. It pulled the two operas together: the love aspirations of a spiritually tortured cockroach yearning to be human, and a woman with a suitcase and ticket, already having lived life, wandering through her purgatory and grasping for an understanding of others. Piecing it all together was the music, or rather the broader concept of sound. Compositionally, the lyrics and music blended together remarkably well, feeling as if words and music could never be parted.

Don’t expect to leave knowing the answers to these questions – what happened to the cockroach or what the wandering female specter comes to understand. By the end, it is the power of an aural, visual, philosophical and kinetic experience that we, in the city of cockroaches, have not seen for a long time. And that leaves one satisfied. (...)“ (10/05/2022 by Daniele Sahr, Seen and heard international online magazine)