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Tri-Stan (2005)

Video with ultra-titles, approximately 60:00, color

Eric Moe ’ s, Tri-Stan, is a sit-trag/concert monodrama for mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger and ten players. The project is a setting of “ Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko ” by David Foster Wallace, a piece of short fiction from his collection, Brief interviews with Hideous Men, an updated retelling of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Classical myths are recombined and imbedded in a matrix of mass-media and high culture: 1980 ’ s-TV meets grand opera – the Brady Bunch goes to The Ring.

I created almost an hour of video with ultra-titles which I controlled live for the 2005 concert performances that took place at Bellefield Hall, Pittsburgh, PA; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Merkin Hall, New York City.

Link to Eric Moe’s site:
www.ericmoe.net