Total Theater

The project was shot in May 2023. Film photography, multiple exposition. "Total Theatre" is the name of a small experimental theater in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Twenty-five years ago, I was studying acting and came very close to becoming an actor, this experience had a significant influence on my personality. In this project, the boundary between the audience and the stage is broken, encompassing what happens before and after the performance. In every person multiple characters are residing: how they see themselves, how they would like to be, and how others perceive them. In an actor, there are additional characters coexist: roles, vision of those roles, how other actors and audience perceive those roles. All together, it is a multi-layered picture, like a layered evening mist over a river, where the outlines of objects emerge, but you can never be certain of what you see in each moment.