Hi Hamlet, I’m Ophelia (2018)

Hi Hamlet, I’m Ophelia (2018) is two short movies realised along a research process initiated through the MA Studies in Performative Practices (DOCH/SKH 2017-2019). The initial idea of the research process was to reconstruct one of the most influential theatrical pieces of western history, Hamlet, without having any knowledge of it. The aim of the research was not to re-write the ”original” Hamlet, rather to reconstruct it through our recollection of it, or else through what one believes to remember. The conversations between Hamlet and Ophelia is one of the participatory set-ups proposed throughout the process.

The movies where presented in a video installation at CCAP/c.off Stockholm (23-26 June 2018)

Concept and development: Mirko Guido

Video editing: Matteo Quarta

Conversation A: Alice MacKenzie and Benedict Olk

Conversation B: Brigitte Wilfing and Lisa Östberg