Pour une histoire du théâtre d'ombres et une analyse de ses résurgences sur la scène contemporaine : un exemple à travers la vidéoprojection filmée en direct par une caméra

Details

Supervisors

Châtel, Jonathan

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en arts du spectacle, à finalité spécialisée: pratiques et métiers du théâtre

Abstract

enThe present Master’s Thesis covers shadow theatre, an art form that is thousands of years old in the East and centuries old in the West, but which now seems to have been rejected by the contemporary scene in favour of 'new technologies'. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the persistence of this practice and its importance, in order to question the way we create images today and the way we 'use' them. To do this, we retraced its history, confirming that modernity distances itself from it, but does not separate itself from it. We then turned to human sciences to shed some light on this contemporary attitude. As the shadow was at the origin of the first images, its theatrical practice is necessarily linked to the birth of projection. This is why we will compare it to a 'modern' projection device, in the form of a video projection filmed live by a camera. Finally, we studied the 'image of the double', which explains why this ancestral practice will not disappear. This led us to conclude that it is important to preserve this kind of craft in our 'new' society of over-consumption of images, which is losing both its function and its value.