On the Process of Virtualization of Contemporary Reality at Oliver Stone

Abstract

Reality becomes a hybrid construct in the context of global communication. Direct perception is no longer the criterion of veracity, but the convergence of opinions about all aspects related to some kind to a given existence. Relating to the truth is the stake of the era and its contemporaries, each citizen dedicating himself to activism in all areas of personal or universal life. Performing arts naturally adapt to social change. Film and theater reflect the phenomenon by developing new styles and contaminating genres with various influences. The series signed by Oliver Stone, Putin's Interviews represents an example of this phenomenon. It offers a new approach to the performing arts relationship with the current reality and opens up new perspectives on new ways to enter into dialogue with the fast-paced history of the early 21st century. The hybridization of the classical genres thus seems to be a formula for taking their final re-definition. Included in the ongoing dialogue between society and the creator, the performing arts become players in a global flow of information.