Matteo Sedda
FUCK ME BLIND (excerpt)
14/05/2025, Bolzano
Matteo Sedda
14/05/2025, Bolzano
Inspired by Blue, Derek Jarman’s last autobiographical film, FUCK ME BLIND is a duo in which the performers share the same pivot point. In the film shot before his death from complications from AIDS, the director takes on his imminent end as an active vindication of his entire existence. International Klein Blue, a colour dear to the director and the only image in the film, becomes the input to begin a tangible search for the body in continuous rotation towards infinity.
Using the same non-narrative tools as the film FUCK ME BLIND aims to create a hypnotic experience against the backdrop of a homoerotic landscape. Through centrifugal force, the dancers wind and mould themselves, while Eros and Thanatos penetrate each other and coexist as centripetal forces in a fatal and irreducible balance.
From this exchange of opposing forces emerges undisturbed Hypnos, inducing the spectator to enter a liminal state, suspended between dream and reality. The two dancing bodies, using aesthetic codes that recall a new homo-folk dance, enact the same claim to existence as the director.
In Jarman’s film the blue becomes a body, in FUCK ME BLIND the dancing body becomes blue.
Concept and direction: Matteo Sedda
Choreography and performance: Marco Labellarte, Matteo Sedda
Sound: Gio Megrelishvili
Dramaturgy and lighting design: Margherita Scalise
Costume design: Maarten Van Mulken
Mentorship: Igor Urzelai Hernando, Moreno Solinas
Production: Fuorimargine – Production Centre for Dance and Performing Arts of Sardinia
Co-production: Théâtre de Vanves / Scène conventionnée dʼintérêt national ” Art et création ” pour la danse et les écritures contemporaines à travers les arts (FR)
With the support of: Grand Studio (BE) Residencies: S’ALA – space for artists* (IT),
With the support of Ad Lib – Residencies Belgium LIBITUM (BE), Destelheide (BE), Residence at Studio Thor, with the support of the company Thor / Thierry Smits (BE), Festival Pedra Dura (PT), Bora Bora (DK), BAMP (BE)
Acknowledgements: FESTIVAL + DE GENRES (FR), Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (BE), oester (BE), LILA Cagliari (IT) and Benoit Van Aken
Winner project of DNAppunticoreografici promoted and supported in collaboration between Fondazione Romaeuropa (IT), Gender Bender Festival (IT), Triennale Milano Teatro (IT), Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni (IT), Operaestate Festival/Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT), L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (IT)
