Chasing Love

Summary:

An exploration of the connections between romantic love and late capitalism.

Website:

http://radiofreeradio.net/chasinglove

Additional Credits and Funding:

With the help and wisdom of Martin Spinelli, Irene Sosa, John Jannone, Pat Willard and Elinoar Astrinsky.
Special Thanks to my actors, Brian and Liza. Special thanks to every single person who gave me hours of their time to sit and record long interviews, where they offered me their secrets, their happiness and their sadness.

Timely on:

February 14: Valentine's Day

Tones:

Contemplative, Emotional, Provocative

Language:

English

Description:

Chasing Love is a one-hour radio documentary that explores the ways late capitalism has affected and is affecting the idea of Romantic Love and consequently, the way relationships are handled and viewed in American society.
Chasing Love started as a meticulous look at the arrival and evolution of the idea of Romantic Love in Western society. Since the very beginning, I felt very attracted by the vague connection that Octavio Paz establishes between capitalism and Romantic Love.
Wandering through psychology, anthropology, biology, linguistics, history and philosophy the content of this project changed over the time, grew and shrank until one day, I made the last connection, the one I needed to put together the more than 80 hours of interviews collected with experts and ordinary wonderful people.
Many writings have established the connection between capitalism and love, even between late capitalism and emotions.
How about late capitalism and Romantic Love?
The process of creating a piece like this happened both in the paper, and in the waves. Waves that became more and more obscure. In these three years I explored the field of computer music, video art, radio drama and try to mix them all together. The results are in Chasing Love. Chasing Love tries a way of conceiving a piece as a whole, where music is composed as the bits of interviews are blended together, where secrets are told behind words of narration.
<br><i>Featured on <a href="http://www.transom.org/">Transom.org</a>. For
more information and conversation, visit <a href="http://www.transom.org/shows/2005/200502.chasing_love.html">"Chasing Love"</a> on Transom.</i>
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