Essays #4
12.5.2024 | Sunday | HOPE Alkazar | 16:30
Exterior Turbulence
Sofia Theodore-Pierce
Sofia Theodore-Pierce
11' 07'' | 2023 | Digital
United STates
United STates
Seizure dreams, horses, and long distance conversations from bed. Loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras Baxter, Vera Baxter. A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture recalled in fragments. Featuring my mother and other star crossed lovers.
The Eyeball Person
Yuri Muraoka
Yuri Muraoka
12' 03'' | 2023 | Super 8; Digital
Mexico
Mexico
This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.
Transparent
Stéphanie Roland
Stéphanie Roland
35' | 2022 | Digital
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
TRANSPARENT is a gentle manifesto and a visionary work of art itself. At the heart of this experimental documentary are the reflections of dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies as she unravels the complex processes that underpin a life’s work in dance. At the same time she looks far beyond herself, touching upon the histories of movement embedded in each of us, allowing the watcher to enter a descriptive world and feel the weight of their own body walking or turning or falling. The images in the film echo Davies’ thoughts, showing the physical fluidity and depth of movement between all things. Many of these things are from the art world - from ancient sculpture through modern artworks and personal photos. The art is seen to be both felt and material, then transformed by the dancer into something they can hold and use.
