Awakening

L’amour rebelle explores sexuality and conflict by reimagining Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen. In this clip, Carmen is reborn and unified with his sexuality. The clip ends with the idea of transubstantiation as the human figure morphs into a single feather. L’amour rebelle is the first-ever live opera on the blockchain. Created by Leo Crane, Merav Eldan and Zachary Whitney, it premiered with a performance in Los Angeles on 29 March 2022. These loops, hand-drawn in charcoal, are from the award-winning film, which launched at the Oscar-qualifying Provincetown International Film Festival in June 2022. They were first shown in an installation at the Grand Palais, Paris, for NFT Paris 2023...View all