The walls have been shattered, the boundaries - blurred, the sense of belonging and the rightness of the place - vanished, the proportions - mocked up and distorted. The identities - forged, the contents - borrowed, the context - out of place. Nothing is as it used to be, nothing is right. But was it ever?

“The City Zen” is a collection of snapshots of city life seen through the prism of a handful of hallucination-immersed scripts, and incoherent dreams of two characters. It is about living on the edge between fantasy and reality; about feeling permanently alienated, outcast, and disconnected; about something profound, uncomfortable, and difficult to deal with. Something really important... yet hard to label, not to mention verbalise its contents.

Last but not least, it is about the creation process itself. The inter-crossing city routes of two main characters - Dr. Bronkenstein and Tobias F., the relationships between the characters on-stage and on-screen, show the process as a self-guiding, self-feeding, and self-organising entity. One may say that “The City Zen” is an audio-visual metaphor of a life immersed both in the reality and a dream - it describes 'flashbacks' contorting time and space, the correlations and continuity within the scattered, feedback contained within the process, and the impact all these make - both on the 'creator' and the 'creation'.

Short feature in the 3sat TV show "Kulturzeit" about B-Seite Festival:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqdvS1jWyXk

Version 1.0 of the edited video content without additional live visuals and without Dr. Bronkenstein's stage performance:

http://vimeo.com/10344661

Additional info:

http://mutanten.org/ubermutanty/2010-04-16/the-city-zen-av-performance-v-1/