Physical release of 50 hand-signed CDs,
self-released on January 15, 2025
THIRST is an intermedia piece produced by the artist group MRZB between Amsterdam, Milan, and Zagreb. The work assembles film, text, and sound-oriented live performances. Centered around a claustrophobic underworld, the work presents itself as a passion-play of glamor, damnation, and death. Juxtaposing abreactive theatrics, staged happenings, and filmic sequences, the work follows a group of alienated, doomed characters drifting through the suburbia of leather bars, basement clubs, lost highways, hotel rooms, run-down galleries, and cramped, crowded apartments. Clichéd lines, potential appropriations from 90’s TV melodramas, coexist with existential punch-lines; pop songs with electro-clash beats; and industrial run-away music with shoegaze riffs and New Romantics attitudes. A slightly sensual, lower-class, southern suburban chic mirrors itself in the music , melodramatic scenarios and decadent sets. The work cannibalizes desperate literary, cinematic, fashion, and artistic references for the articulation of a postmodern filmic drama mixing elements of genre cinemas in the tradition of neo-noir, horror, pulp, fashion, road, and B-movies. The following music score has been written with and produced by artist and producer Rin Suemitsu. It has been used both to score moving images and as material for the production of a variery of scenes of the film. The physical release, in an edition of 50 hand printed and signed CDs, include fragments of the script performed by Mina Tomic, Jette Loona Hermanis, Pietro Agostoni, Katia Kabalina, and a voice perfomance by Rin Suemitsu.
https://www.mrzb.info/contents.html