Living Apartment Together: a life-size film of thirteen intertwined lives.
Mother and daughter. A colourful group of bike couriers. A young couple and an older married couple. Each in their own little living room theatre, they live below, above, and beside one another. Until chance gradually intertwines their parallel stories. That is what high-rise living does: it forces residents into distant intimacy.
The on-location performance Living Apartment Together - inspired by Georges Perec’s novel Life: A User’s Manual (La Vie mode d’emploi) - explores this fleeting collectivity in a multimedia production. You are invited to a unique location in Antwerp. The side wall of an apartment building becomes the canvas for a life-sized film projection.
One building, thirteen stories, and a multitude of unresolved emotions. Each one brought to life by director Yves Degryse and screenwriter Angelo Tijssens (known for films like Close and Girl). It is like peeking into a diorama of grand dramas and small rituals. During the performance, the cast steps in and out of the film. And so, the audience, listening via headphones, is transformed from voyeur to extra. Living Apartment Together thus plays on human curiosity, inviting us to connect.