Romeo y Julieta, Rita Fischer

The video 'Romeo & Juliet' by Rita Fischer is an ode to the neglected and to the forgotten. Interweaving small things with deep metaphors and even deeper feelings that underlie them, it honours the childhood memories and resurrects a game the artist used to play as a child, but which has become almost impossible today because of the irreversible material changes in the world. Although slightly nostalgic, the video isn't filled with regret, but rather with tenderness and with light, both literally - thanks to the presence of the fire element - and metaphorically. It shares with us a beautiful love-story that everyone knows, reinterpreting in its own humble and touching way.
While talking about this video, the artist explains: "This video shows a kind of game, which I used to play with my grandmother when I was a child. We called it "Romeo & Juliet". I always wanted to make this ritual again, but the paper matches dissappeared from the market so many years ago. I made the association of this dissapeareance to the changes in our society at the human relations level. The times have changed and nobody believes in affective bonds today, because they are deep and fragile. They are temporary and very easy to break. Neither is possible to play "Romeo & Juliet”. But a few months ago, at the Tristan Narvaja fair, among a lot of empty match boxes, I found this one: the only one which was full."
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Merci, au delà de l'utilité indéniable pour la culture artistique de mes élèves, l'œuvre est d'une poésie du "presque rien " très touchante pour moi même.