Words of Love. An essay on passions

How many dramaturgically pre-established situations have we experienced in our stories of love? What pleasures or ghosts are hidden behind the mask of beliefs about the ideal of love? Could it be that the main cause of social conflicts is not hatred but an excess of blind love? What effects would the de-idealisation of love have on social order? And on us? What is the responsibility of culture in all these paradoxes?

     During the creation and production process of the piece Words of love, I met with a criminologist, a private detective and a psychoanalyst. A few months after the action and using fragments from these encounters and fragments of popular songs that I grew up with, I created this video essay which challenges the established representations and the learned cultural mandates surrounding passionate love and its consequences.