5 Short Films
2022
Interviews & Reviews
2022
12 Jan - 31 Dec
Gandini Juggling
LIFE
12 Jan - 31 DecThe brief: to create a short film between 3-10 minutes long that isn’t driven by spoken text. The commissioned artists are free to choose subject matter and style.
Main Image: Gabriela Muñoz. photo © Brenda Islas
Main Image: Gabriela Muñoz. photo © Brenda Islas
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Creating & Playing with Characters
DELGADO FUCHS (Switzerland). Classical and contemporary trained dancer-choreographers Marco Delgado and Nadine Fuchs have presented their work on 5 continents and have been artists in residence at the Centquatre in Paris. Semi-serious, often light-hearted, their pieces play with the idea of ambiguity using a sequenced language and developing micro-narrations that overlap to compose the framework of extraordinary tales. Exploring different aspects of being and of the human body, their work involves dance, performance, installation, photography, video, fashion and fine arts, and fits no conventional categories.
DELGADO FUCHS (Switzerland). Classical and contemporary trained dancer-choreographers Marco Delgado and Nadine Fuchs have presented their work on 5 continents and have been artists in residence at the Centquatre in Paris. Semi-serious, often light-hearted, their pieces play with the idea of ambiguity using a sequenced language and developing micro-narrations that overlap to compose the framework of extraordinary tales. Exploring different aspects of being and of the human body, their work involves dance, performance, installation, photography, video, fashion and fine arts, and fits no conventional categories.
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DEWEY DELL (Italy) is a performing arts group founded in 2006 by Teodora, Agata and Demetrio Castellucci, and Eugenio Resta, based in Germany (Berlin) and Cesena (Italy). Their work features choreography, music and drama inspired and nourished by images from art history and the animal kingdom. Since 2006 they have performed worldwide at major festivals and events in Australia, Japan, America and Europe, making their UK debut at the Barbican Pit for LIMF 2017 with Marzo. Dewey Dell’s most recent stage work, Hamlet, premiered at the Tanznacht festival in Berlin in July 2021.
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GABRIELA MUÑOZ (Mexico) is one of the world’s top female clown performers, best known for her portrayal of a woman desperate for companionship and marriage in Quizas, premiered in New York in 2010, seen at LIMF 2018 and festivals everywhere from the Arctic Circle to New Zealand. A native of Mexico, she trained at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) whose course is based on Jacques Lecoq ́s teaching and method. She has volunteered with Clowns Without Borders USA since 2011 and has given clown and storytelling workshops in North, Central and South America, the Middle East and the UK.
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HIROAKI UMEDA (Japan) is a Tokyo-based choreographer, photographer and video artist creating mesmerising visual environments for his visceral live performances, appearing as a fine-spun swirl of movement in a digital storm of light and sound. An acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist and leading figure of the Japanese avant-garde, he uses a distinctive movement vocabulary of his own creation. His work is minimalist and radical, subtle and violent, abstract yet precise, and thrillingly physical. Hiroaki appeared at the Mime Festival in 2008 at Barbican, The Pit and in 2012 at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre.
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PATRICK SIMS (France/USA) was born and raised in America. He was founder and former creative director of Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes (LIMF 2009) before creating his current company Les Antliaclastes (LIMF 2011, 2017 & 2019) which uses a unique blend of different puppetry techniques and styles, masks, machines, and original organic soundtracks, with references to classical, popular, hermetic and contemporary visual and performing arts, music, cinema and literature. Patrick first became involved with puppets whilst studying film and animation at Middlebury College, USA. He has worked with Bread and Puppet Theatre, studied shadow puppetry in Java, and pursued a doctorate at Trinity College, Dublin with a thesis on the Pataphysics of the Puppet, Alfred Jarry and the inhuman performer.