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ANAM CARA – MIRROR IN THE MIRROR

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ANAM CARA – MIRROR IN THE MIRROR

DURATION:
90' 05''
DESCRIPTION

An original experiment in fusing different art forms to create a comprehensive offering that, while maintaining each ingredient's unique flavours, leaves behind a nouveau aftertaste that will soothe the soul. –Pixelsgarage A radical, contemporary fairy tale. A collective performance-based film about the concept of home produced and co-created across Europe, the U.S. and Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in April and May 2020. In the rooms of an imaginary dwelling, we encounter twenty-two artists in performance action, rituals and poetic sharing about their isolated notions of home: a place-non-place, where the invisible is made visible and vice versa. Without inside or outside, we recognise the rooms because they originate from the depths of our hearts. There, encounters continue to be possible despite distance, quarantine and insulation. What does "home" mean when forced inside, with insecurity, unpredictability, disease and death being the denominators of the moment? What can body-based artists speak about then, and to whom? Physically distant, how can a collective co-creative spirit be kept up?

CREDITS

A production by VestAndPage as part of the "HOME" cycle of collective performance operas, in collaboration with the Anam Cara Collective, 2020 By and with Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage) in collaboration with Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Sabrina Bellenzier, Giorgi de Santi, daz disley, Marisa Garreffa, Francesco Kiais, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Ash McNaughton, Enok Ripley, Sara Simeoni, Mauro Sambo, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Marcel Sparmann, Susanne Weins, and Giovanni Dantomio, Giorgio de Battisti, Susanna Petternella (Studio Contemporaneo), as well as with contributions by Marilyn Arsem and Franko B. With original music by Aldo Aliprandi, daz disley, Nat Norland and Mauro Sambo. The film is inspired by "The Mirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth, a collection of surreal short stories" by Michael Ende, initially published in 1984.

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Since 2006, German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian-born artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects.

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