More Headlessness at the Paris Olympics
The Paris Olympics, which began with a blasphemy against the Last Supper, ended with a bizarre closing ceremony.
The five continents were presented as fragile world, full of fog and dust, artificial and mysterious. The Olympic rings were transformed into a kind of astral portal that was opened.
A "Golden Voyager" with two horns and a bird's head landed on the deserted earth. The costume was made of 20.000 glittering pearls, shining like a sun.
His explorers were cloaked figures, faceless and in gray costumes.
Shortly after the "Golden Voyager" descended into the stadium, Benjamin Bernheim sang the pagan "Hymn to Apollo". It was accompanied by Alain Roche, who played a piano suspended in the air.
The Golden Voyager greeted a decapitated one-winged statue called the Winged Victory of Samothrace. This statue rose into the sky while the golden horned figure looked on.
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