Zachary Oberzan | USA


One-Man-Musical with movies and childhood heroes
„In some ways we’re different, but we’re brothers.“
Late eighties in rural America. The teenagers Zachary and Gator act out their favourite films using their parents' VHS camera: "Kickboxer" with Jean-Claude Van Damme or the splatter classic "Faces of Death". Twenty years later, Zachary returned to his parents' house to re-shoot with his brother, scene for scene, the simulated films. It is funny, but it also reveals what has changed. Between original and copy and copy of the copy, the question of what the brothers have become, remains all pervasive. One has become an actor, the other went down a self-destructive path of drug abuse and time in prison. What separates, what connects the two? And why is there this mysterious parallel to the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme? With great openness and some self-penned songs, Zachary Oberzan's comic and moving theatre-film-experiment deals with lost dreams, deceptions and self-deceptions and, particularly, with the bond between brothers.

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Concept, direction and performance Zachary Oberzan Video performance Gator Oberzan Text Zachary Oberzan, Gator Oberzan Lighting, sound and tour managementeo Nicole Schuchardt In co-production with KunstenFestivalDesArts 2010, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival / Grand Theater Groningen, brut Wien