REDDENING
Kayacan Sinem, Zodiak - Center for New Dance
REDDENING is a genre-bending fantasy film at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction. The title refers to the final stage of alchemy, Rubedo, in which the alchemical transformation takes place.
Historically, the practice of alchemy aimed to turn base metals into silver and gold, and ultimately to achieve the Magnum Opus: divine illumination, heavenly bliss, and the elixir of life. Different disciplines have understood the alchemical transformation as occurring within their respective strata—matter, psyche, or spirit. Nevertheless, for the transformation to occur, alchemists themselves had to undergo a process of transmutation.
REDDENING explores how a film, as a sensuous object, can pleasure, repulse, nurture, and ultimately transmute the body of the audience.