Selected for IDFA on Stage
This startling collage of archival footage of the British countryside is a cross between a historical document and a psychedelic trip. The pulsating soundtrack is performed live by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) plus band.
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A multimedia performance about the murder of 18-year-old Lucas, the nephew of filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste, reflecting on the tragedy through a combination of video footage, interviews, readings, music, dance and lighting effects.
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Storyteller Sister Sylvester has made a book for collective reading. The audience participates in this film-concert by reading, following directions and listening to a remarkable story about recent events in Turkey and the history of the aerial view.
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In this intimate live performance, Belgian theater director Tom Struyf tells the story of the footage he shot over several years in Willard, a tiny American hamlet, where the ruin of a psychiatric institution led him unexpectedly back to Belgium.
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A performance about the funeral process, the perfect occasion for combining ritual, emotion-sharing and religion. Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed explores our relationship with life’s end in a staged ceremony.
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Documentary theater in which four young Cubans reconstruct the lives of their grandparents and rewrite the history of their country. These stories are interwoven with the contemporary socio-political issues of a fast-changing Cuba.
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In a unique one-to-one performance, you talk to a young person about the climate crisis and dreams for the future. The new generation has burning questions and is urgently searching for new hope.
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In our “attention economy”, where money is to be made from every second we spend looking at a screen, more and more people are suffering from insomnia. In this live guided group experience in VR, theater collective Bombina Bombast leads you to sleep.
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A live event in which six performers respond to rediscovered footage of a conference held in 1961 at which a new political dream for the Third World was formulated.
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