Ugo Fiore wrote and directed *L’uomo che brucia*, a work that, inspired by the novel *L’Homme qui brûle* by French author Alban Lefranc, unfolds as a brutal and unrelenting plunge into an overheated mind.
The Burning Man
Ugo Fiore / Alfonso De Vreese
© Luca Fiore
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This show contains explicit language
The Burning Man
Ugo Fiore / Alfonso De Vreese
© Luca Fiore
show in production
!
This show contains explicit language
In a familiar yet distorted city, terrorist attacks are no longer exceptional events, but rather a sort of daily reality. The city center has become an area reserved for young women, celebrating their youth and elegance to boost tourism. Meanwhile, soldiers hand out flyers for a memorial signed by Banksy: #all*together*against*terrorism
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This is not a dystopian future, but our present taken to extremes, to the point of caricature. Lefranc’s language reflects this drift: it shifts from hashtags to biblical verses, from political aphorisms to pornographic scenes, constantly breaking apart and reassembling itself.
In this scenario, we follow Luc, a writer obsessed with the Project
: a total book, capable of containing everything. It is both a refuge and a form of paralysis, a boundless work that engulfs everything without giving anything back. Luc observes the catastrophe without acting, as if in front of a screen. Words lose their meaning; reality loses its substance. Even desire is transformed into a form of automatism: pornography becomes the grammar of the gaze, preventing any authentic encounter. This distortion also infects his bond with his childhood friend—one of the last remnants of affection—which transforms into an ambiguous web of projections, desire, and loss.
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