Carmen and Carmen: La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death) is a multichannel sound and film installation by award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist Wu Tsang that explores poetic themes of the famous opera Carmen through the performative fields of flamenco and bullfighting. The film explores how these forms – like the opera itself – evoke the spectacle of death, and implicate the spectator as a part of it. This work brings the ritual performance of death (real and imagined) into a conversation with cinema, which bears its own murderous traditions. The film features collaborations with performers Rocío Molina with José “El Oruco”, Yinka Esi Graves, Tosh Basco and the bullfighter Vanessa Montoya. WARMLY RECOMMENDED: Amsterdam@De Balie till 12 January, 2025