Film still »Euphoria« | © Julian Rosefeldt

»Euphoria« is the long-awaited, new, multi-disciplinary, spatial film installation by the video artist and film-maker Julian Rosefeldt, who wowed Ruhrtriennale audiences in 2016 with »Manifesto«.

About the production

His new work is a tour de force that runs through the history of economic theory. The project consists of original texts from famous economists, writers, philosophers and poets, and traces the 2,000-year history of human greed. He translates the complex history of the development of our neoliberal market economy into an accessible visual language through the combination of historical texts with familiar scenic representations, in which actors like Giancarlo Esposito and Virginia Newcomb appear as contemporary characters and Cate Blanchett provides the voice for a talking, singing tiger. The project pursues the question of why capitalism appears, until now, to have no alternative and why it remains irresistible, even to people who are aware of its destructive nature, as a filmic re-enactment of both pro-capitalist and capitalist-critical positions.

The music in Euphoria was composed by the Canadian Samy Moussa. The British composer Cassie Kinoshi has also contributed one chapter. The music component of the project was created in collaboration with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and five of the most famous jazz percussionists of our time – Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Gadd, Antonio Sanchez, Eric Harland and Yissy García.

Commissioned and produced by Park Avenue Armory.
Co-commissioned by Ruhrtriennale, Holland Festival and Rising Melbourne, in Association with Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte.

Ruhrtriennale 2022 – Teaser: Euphoria

Cast

Written, Directed, Produced
Music

Executive Producer Wassili Zygouris
Executive Producer Kiew Anastasiya Bukovska, Tatiana Kurmaz, Family Production
Executive Producer New York Christian Detres, See The Tree Productions
Executive Producer Sofia Konstantina Manolova, Solent Film
Chief Artistic Producer Park Avenue Armory, New York Michael Lonergan

Director of Photography Christoph Krauss
Set Design Nadja Götze
Costume Design Daniela Backes, Bina Daigeler
Hair/ Make-Up Julia Böhm, Katharina Thieme, Sonia Salazar Delgado
Choreography Bank Scene Richard Siegal
Sound recording David Hilgers, Oliver Göbel, Ludwig Fiedler
Sound Design Thomas Appel
Editing Bobby Good

Dramaturgy Tobias Staab
Text collages , Tobias Staab
Dramaturgical advice Janaina Pessoa
Assistant Director Denis Sonin, Ires Jung
Casting Cassandra Han

Musical Concept
Composition
Additional Music Cassie Kinoshi
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Director Dianne Berkun Menaker
Music Production Ed Williams, Dianne Berkun Menaker
Sound engineer music recording Isaiah Abolin

With Giancarlo Esposito, Virginia Newcomb, Ayesha Jordan, Kate Strong, Jeff Wood, Erik Hansen, Tim Williams, Jeff Burrell, Robert Bronzi, Rocio Rodriguez-Inniss, Dora Zygouri, Esther Odumade, Tia Murrell, Asa Ali, Luis Rosefeldt, Richard Siegal, Nena Sorzano, , Jared Brown
and the voice of Cate Blanchett

And Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Yissy Garcia, Eric Harland, Antonio Sanchez, sowie den Sänger:innen des Brooklyn Youth Chorus
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