“El pasado nunca se muere, ni siquiera es pasado” by Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Kunstenfestivaldesarts)

I should really brush up on history, especially on the events of 1968. Quite a few performances seen in Berlin “celebrated” the 50th anniversary of Prague Spring and left-wing student protests in Germany, “El pasado nunca se muere, ni siquiera es pasado” remembers the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico when police and military killed 400 civilians protesting the government. The way these events are remembered is rather poetic, using semitones rather than painting everything in black and red (as did many productions in Berlin). “El pasado nunca se muere, ni siquiera es pasado” is an installation of a movie set for a movie that was never made. We see some filmed material of the – now old themselves – children of the students who revolted in 1968, taken on 2048. We see (on an empty stage) two guys, who might be the same men we saw on screen 30 years earlier, in 2018, going through some scenes from the film using imaginable objects (and a chair). We see sheets from the story-board of the same scenes exhibited on the walls. It's that simple and that's why it works – performance about a movie that was never made just has to be a performance that never happened (in the traditional sense).