Odysseus: Odysseus

In English

VERS is the space of Zaal 3 for emerging talent to show what they've got in a professional setting. Today will see the premiere of Koen van der Braak's visual playlist Odysseus: Odysseus. A movie made up of music videos, based on Homer's The Odyssey and featuring music of artists like James Blake, Rosalía, Caroline Polachek, Nicolas Jaar and Frank Ocean. 

In the film, Odysseus recounts the story of how he travelled across the Mediterranean Sea after winning the Trojan War, determined to return to Ithaca, his home.
A story about psychedelic Lotus-flowers, socially awkward one-eyed giants, sexy Sirens, and queer witches.
About the sea.
About the wind.
About carnivorous drag queens, and about letting go.

"I'll leave once. After that I'll stay.
I'll leave maybe twice. But then I'll finally stay...
When I've left I'll stand still once and hesitate,
maybe twice as well - I don't know.
I'm right, I'll think. 
I'm taking the shortest way, the most precious way
and also the fastest way,
along abysses and elegant ruins,
along poppies, along screeching seagulls,
the way home." 

Crowdfunding

Koen ter Braak is a graduating student at HKU, Odysseus: Odysseus is his graduation piece. To finish the project, he started a crowdfunding campaign via voordekunst. Help Koen cross the finish line:

voordekunst

About VERS

Zaal 3 partners with a large number of academies in the Netherlands under the flag of VERS. In our smallest, but most surprising theatre, students may develop their work for a week to present the results to the audience at the end of this period. Other times, young theatre makers perform the production they have been developing on the academy.

An excellent opportunity for the students to present their work in a professional environment, and a perfect way for the audience to discover the artists of the future.