LVs (language videos) and the Key Speech (in its 3 versions)

LVs:

A group of short videos of … people … people from different cultures, different nationalities, different backgrounds and different points of view about personal subjects and the internet itself as the communication media.

Doing a piece about the Internet is impossible (at least for me) without acknowledging different languages, and people communicating/connecting through it in different languages.

The idea is to have these LVs scattered throughout the piece.

KEY SPEECH:

This is a very particular phrase ambigious enough to be part of any story, to be used by any character and to be repeated as many times as possible not only in Spanish live onstage (Paraguayan cast) but in all the other languages through the LVs.

I’ve written 3 different KEY SPEECHES to keep my options opened when the time comes in Paraguay to choose the KEY SPEECH that speaks to us the most or keep the 3.

THIS VIDEO:

This is the backstage of the LVs. I’m still missing SPANISH and ITALIAN.

In the meantime, I wanted to share the rest and give an idea of what they really are or what they could become.

I only speak Spanish … and a little English. I edited this video before getting all the translations and following the actors emotions and what I told them to talk about. I also directed all the videos in the same way … not speaking all these languages and gave them the KEY SPEECHES in English.

KEY SPEECH 1 ONCE AGAIN

Smoke signals … signs … vital signs … heart beats. Once again. Do you hear me? Once again. The information era, digital era, computer age, space age, the knowledge era, once again, the feeling age, under the skin era. Once again. Do you understand me?

KEY SPEECH 2 HAVE YOU EVER…?

When everybody leaves, there’s nothing. Too much silence. Have you ever felt so lonely that your inner voice becomes louder and louder?

KEY SPEECH 3 SOMETIMES I PRETEND…

Sometimes I pretend I’m surrounded by a lot of people, they all know me and I know everybody … silence is not so loud. Sometimes I pretend I’m with somebody …
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