Goodbye, Cinema (2025)

for amplified ensemble

15 min

(premiere: gaudeamus2025)

“Well, actors really shouldn’t die, you know. Actors should die in movies. They should die in the story. And then come back to life in another movie. The repetition of history… reincarnation. But Humphrey Bogart actually died outside of the movies. What a selfish person.”
——Shūji Terayama, “farewell to movie”

“creation is all about getting into the audience’s problems to make them laugh and cry, right? well, it wouldn’t be fair if creators didn’t get hurt too. would it? “
[…]”it’s missing a pinch of fantasy, don’t you think?”
——Tatsuki Fujimoto, “Goodbye Eri”