Promotional film length 10 min

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VERITAPHOBIA is an immersive surrealist performance art experience, shaped around contemporary 'crossover' opera. Self-directed and performed by Maya Petrovna, who composed the original music and designed the multiple-costume changing scenography. 

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The installations, costumes, projections and music are built in non-separable form, where the visual world becomes melodic and the sonic becomes visual. Maya will sing, play various instruments, and create live soundscapes through movement within the installations, performing each song in a different character. The 13 otherworldly costumes represent faces of society, who live in a transitional state between now and the future, channelling humanity’s fragile relationship with the earth and future predictions of environmental devastation and domination by artificial intelligence.

Veritaphobia (fear of the truth) is channelling environmental and social changes. Questioning if the modern technology is the real cause of dehumanization, or if it is an exhibition of human nature that no longer loves itself?  The aural and visual journey is a bake of human absurdism, garnished with inevitable dark humour and irony.

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Maya is bringing her new compositional work that fuses contemporary opera with Eastern European vocal techniques, orchestral brass work blended with industrial drones, and choirs entirely created with her voice. 

Promotional film is available to producers with the provided password.