There is No Other Place
AMERICAN MARRIAGE
"A Boy's Journey: Crossing The Alenuihaha Channel"
TO THE WOOD
Fine art, puppetry, and salvaged collectables intersect with beautiful live action to create this modern day ode. Adeline, an ever shrinking child, doesn't fit in and longs for the beauty, peace and safety of THE WOOD.
VACCUM
It is an early and significant characteristic of any culture. But beyond that, It is a practice in which the spirit and values of our community can be shaped, molded and expressed.
Art is born from personal and social conflicts, and introduces those conflicts to an audience, forcing the public to ask itself questions often ignored.
Through art, our collective and personal subconscious raises to the surface, allowing us to examine it and better understand ourselves and our surroundings.
Slowly, but steadily, art has brought about changes in world orders, among other things, by being a way to talk about things we could not talk about, until they were presented to us as they were viewed by artists.
In a time when performance art drops to the bottom of government and national priorities, and for many of us - entirely shut down, I asked dance artists around the world how it affected their self-image and self-worth.
This film deals with the impact of the covid-19 pandemic crisis on stage artists' mental state, as an image of the profound impact of the absence of stage art on society.