Animals have been present in my productions since my first works, it is a distinctive trait of mine, you learn a lot from them. My father and his friends took me deer hunting. I hated hunting, I couldn’t stand guns, but I learned the art of observing in the silence of the woods. I like looking at things in silence.
How does a black panther look at you? When I made the 22-minute video with the black panther it was not in a cage, it was on a table, in a room with me and a group of technicians. When we were there, none of us moved, we remained still.
Kleist once said that a good actor is like a bear, he never moves first.
Looking at animals is, I think, part of my signature.

(Robert Wilson)

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