With
Mireia Donat Melús, Mauro Molina, Isaac Torres
‘This is a film about love. [...] The characters in this film have no visual image; they are only words.’ Founded in 2010 by Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert, the Catalan collective El Conde de Torrefiel views theatre as a space for experiment where visual exploration can challenge narrative conventions and question the power of words. La Luz de un lago is a hypothetical love film, of which only fragments of a script remain and are projected onto moving surfaces. A voice tells us of four intertwined stories set in four European cities at different times – four incomplete fictions, devoid of bodies and landscapes. Faced with these narrative gaps, the audience is invited to piece together the missing images, their imagination becoming the editing room of this unfinished film.
Cast
set design
El Conde de Torrefiel, Isaac Torres
space and materials
El Conde de Torrefiel, La Cuarta Piel, Mireia Donat Melús
lighting designer
Manoly Rubio García
sound designer
Rebecca Praga, Uriel Ireland
video designer
Carlos Pardo, María Antón Cabot
regie on tour
Uriel Ireland, Guillem Bonfill, Roberto Baldinelli
technical coordinator
Isaac Torres
production management
Uli Vandenberghe
executive production
CIELO DRIVE SL, Alessandra Simeoni
coproduction
Festival GREC — Barcelona, CC Conde Duque — Madrid, Théâtre St. Gervais — Geneva, Teatro Municipal de Porto — Rivoli, Festival d'Automne, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Festival Contemporanea – Prato, VIERNULVIER — Ghent
with the support of
ICEC — Generalitat de Catalunya (production), Festival TNT — Terrassa, Teatre Principal de Lloret de Mar
in co-presentation with
Festival d'Automne
Five dates
11.9.1999 Trip to Senegal / Tanya and Pablo.
22.7.2003 ETA bomb attack in Benidorm / History of Spain.
14.3.2015 Five-hour conversation with Rodrigo Saboarzo in a Granada town square / Pablo.
22.4.2021 I finish my first book of science fiction stories / Tanya.
24.12.2026 Israel recognizes the State of Palestine / Tanya and Pablo.
