Sound and vision collective Wanderwelle has written a new score for Japanese avant-garde production A Page of Madness (1926), in which the protagonist’s descent into insanity is presented associatively. Première of this live performance, oscillating between ‘hypnotic silence’ and ‘rhythmic eruption’.
An ex-mariner works as a cleaner in the psychiatric institution where his wife is a patient. Because he feels guilty? One thing’s for sure: the man is increasingly falling under the spell of his own delusions.
Director Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982) based A Page of Madness ( Kurutta ichipêji ) on a short story by Japanese author and (later) Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. Whereas Kinugasa had previously worked exclusively as a fiction film director for commercial studios, he now decided…
