When you switch on television, you can move from crime to passion, from the past to the future, in different rapidities, you are part of all possible times and spaces.

In ‘Romeo is bleeding’ time and space are in a same way wrenched from their original context. The producer of this video fulfills a variety of roles in a setting reflecting both comic-strip decors and primitive surroundings. Links are made with cultures of Africa, South America and Australia and the production makes clear, using both parody and seriousness that adventure and power are not male privileges. We see Lydia Schouten doing a ritual dance around a pair of primitive devil-like male figures, shooting a pistol and caressing male dummies. That she lives to see everything alone in a not existing world built from painted decors, has in the beginning a humoristic effect, but becomes later more and more dramatic. (LS)