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HAYY: A Self-Taught Musical
2012-2015, The project by nüans (Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann, Maki Umehara)
"HAYY —A Self-Taught Musical" is based on Ibn-Tufail’s novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / The Self-Taught Philosopher, a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. It's the story of Hayy, a boy raised by a doe on an uninhabited tropical island. When the doe passes away, Hayy’s life develops from one of dependency to one of exploration and discovery. He starts by dissecting his mother in order to find out where life comes from. Over the years he grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided but also unimpeded by society, language, or tradition.
[Hayy]
Artists, contributors and collaborators: Concept: Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann, Maki Umehara David-Marlo Conrads Film still: Maki Umehara, "Hayy"〈The Story of Hayy, Sicily〉
Film: Alexander Basile, Hugo Schneider, nüans
Choreography: Rita McBride
Music: sub-tle.
Hoshiko Yamane, Naoki Matsushita, Olof Jönsson, Christian Wieser, nüans
Elke Kania
Karolina Thorwarth
Michael Maurissens
Bambi
Andy Šlemenda
Antje Feger & Benjamin F. Stumpf
David Bernstein
Carlotta Werner
Christian Wieser
Claudia Barth
Glen Rubsamen
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Hüseyin Karakaya
Janosch Pugnaghi
The ART Foundation
Maiko Sugano
Matthis Bacht
Miki Hoei
Yoshimi Kanbayashi
The execusion of the project Hayy was made possible by many artists and assistance. nüans (E.Hermann, A.Heidenhain, and M.Umehara) worked for concept, direction, and so on. The description of film still and the other details were excluded from the credit title in the film. Therefore Umehara may have been mistaken by audiences for nüans' assistant. The credit as the necessary is described in detail on this website for a limitative time. Details | plot (setting of locations): Sicily and Istanbul were set by Heidenhain; villages nearby Düsseldorf (nature, carnival), by Hermann; Insel Hombroich (architecture), Düsseldorf (studio), and Tokyo, by Umehara. Casting/setting of characters: nüans