Institute History
Description
The Conversationalists is a live-performed non-existent film. It is an original movie written by James & Jerome, described shot-by-shot by an impassioned narrator, while a chamber orchestra onstage plays the fully-realized score to the film as it is described. The movie, occurring in full only in the audience’s minds, is a melodrama about the loving, combative friendship between a Palestinian-American chess shop owner and a Colombian-Mexican ranchera star, who share a love of mystic parables. It is being created in collaboration with director Annie Tippe.
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