DRINKING BRECHT

Drinking Brecht Sister Sylvester

After stealing a hat from the costume collection of famous communist playwright Bertolt Brecht, multimedia artist sister sylvester embarks on a forensic quest to trace the hat’s possible past wearers. Paying homage to Brecht’s “scientific theater,” which endeavored to spark revolution, Drinking Brecht is an innovative interactive documentary using microbiology and genetics to merge past and present. “A documentary that you can drink, the work ingests worn-out scientific narratives and turns them into a marxist-feminist ritual, and a celebration of science for the people.”

—sister sylvester

Co-commissioned by IDFA Doc Lab and Onassis ONX

Written, directed, stage designed, and narrated by sister sylvester

Score and experiment narration by DMR

Percussion by Ellery Trafford

Audio mixing by Murat Çolak

Color Grading by Nathan Saucier

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