SPECTACLE #4 (2017)
“I start with writing (language is movement), then I interview people (who's talking about dance?),
I use my mouth to make knots in cherry stems (I have never tried it before)
and I edit a movie vertically because virtual space is better than likely (verosimile),
as Paolo Uccello might have said. Or better: piling up is also peeling off.”
I use my mouth to make knots in cherry stems (I have never tried it before)
and I edit a movie vertically because virtual space is better than likely (verosimile),
as Paolo Uccello might have said. Or better: piling up is also peeling off.”
(Anaglyph 3D and standard images to be viewed as a large size projection with & without 3D glasses) 45 min. ca.
Spectacle #4 is a film treating the relation between dance and language as a fiction in four chapters.
Using the literary form of EKPHRASIS, the description of an art work imagined or existed but not physically present, the film started from a series of interviews displaying how we do or don't talk, understand and remember a performance.
As ridiculous and poetic as it may sound, we literally put words on dance and vice versa to semioticize and desemioticize at the same time. Conscious of the lack of transparency in relation to translation, especially from one medium to another, we choose film to convey the complexity of the topic in a rather excessive and sensual way. We use a DIY 3D technology which actually doubles the image, creating space in between two surfaces and adding virtual perspectives. We work vertically by piling up images and voices, not for the sake of accumulation but rather with the aim of peeling off or shedding the skin.
Spectacle #4 is a film treating the relation between dance and language as a fiction in four chapters.
Using the literary form of EKPHRASIS, the description of an art work imagined or existed but not physically present, the film started from a series of interviews displaying how we do or don't talk, understand and remember a performance.
As ridiculous and poetic as it may sound, we literally put words on dance and vice versa to semioticize and desemioticize at the same time. Conscious of the lack of transparency in relation to translation, especially from one medium to another, we choose film to convey the complexity of the topic in a rather excessive and sensual way. We use a DIY 3D technology which actually doubles the image, creating space in between two surfaces and adding virtual perspectives. We work vertically by piling up images and voices, not for the sake of accumulation but rather with the aim of peeling off or shedding the skin.
Images, sound and editing by Sara Manente and Christophe Albertijn
With: David Bernadas, Mari Matre Larsen, Jaime Llopis, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Arantxa Martinez, Béatrice Balcou, Sabine Macher, Muna Mussie, Alix Eynaudi, Alice Chauchat, Trond Reinholdtsen, Maria Teresa Polverelli, Leif Elggren, Marco Berrettini, Béatrice Collignon, Silvia Fanti, Daniele Gasparinetti, Ottavia Guarese, Pietro Bertazzo, Helena Dietrich...i.a.
A production of CABRA vzw
Coproduced by Beursschouwburg
With the support of BUDA and De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
In collaboration with Bains Connective, XING, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek and Les Ateliers Claus
With the help of Hiros
Thanks to all the guests of the research Spectacles (2016), made with the support of the Flemish Government
Thanks to Benjamin Albertijn, Erik Heestermans, Federico Bertazzo, Edurne Rubio, Andros Zins-Browne, Valérie Castan, La Bellone, Zsenne ArtLab
With: David Bernadas, Mari Matre Larsen, Jaime Llopis, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Arantxa Martinez, Béatrice Balcou, Sabine Macher, Muna Mussie, Alix Eynaudi, Alice Chauchat, Trond Reinholdtsen, Maria Teresa Polverelli, Leif Elggren, Marco Berrettini, Béatrice Collignon, Silvia Fanti, Daniele Gasparinetti, Ottavia Guarese, Pietro Bertazzo, Helena Dietrich...i.a.
A production of CABRA vzw
Coproduced by Beursschouwburg
With the support of BUDA and De Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
In collaboration with Bains Connective, XING, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek and Les Ateliers Claus
With the help of Hiros
Thanks to all the guests of the research Spectacles (2016), made with the support of the Flemish Government
Thanks to Benjamin Albertijn, Erik Heestermans, Federico Bertazzo, Edurne Rubio, Andros Zins-Browne, Valérie Castan, La Bellone, Zsenne ArtLab