Iris Goes In...
Short Film, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020 + Adelaide Fringe Festival 2021

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22 minutes 

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Concept, performance, writing, spoken word, editing - Anatolia H. K 

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Cinematography, directing and editing - Kirsty O'Connor​

In 2020, I was studying the myth of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war going into the underworld and meeting her sister the Goddess of Death.

 

The deeper I delved, the more I hungered to create an immersive experience of the myth. So I started working on an online ritual theatre experience, RITUAL THEATRE OF DEATH for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2020.

 

The plan was to create a ritual where I would progressively take viewers through the seven doors of the underworld - they would be invited to do all sorts of weird and wacky things in their homes as symbols of letting go of an old life and identity, that no longer serves.

 

It would be overlaid with a poem about my experiences of transformation - the breaking down to break through.

 

Except, over the project, deep in lockdown, I found myself myself unravelling, dissolving, falling apart and coming back together. 

 

I soon realised it was best to put aside the immersive experience for a later date and create a short film ‘Iris Goes In…’ from the poem. 

 

Here are a couple of sections from the film.

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Big thank you from the heart to Kirsty O'Connor for your ideas and filming.