Beyond Desire
Synopsis
Using physicality, haunting sound design and immersive camera work as vessels for intimate, multi-layered and unerringly contemporary story telling. Our lead finds herself on a repeating loop, the end is the start as she oscillates between what was and what is. Is she unable to escape her trauma and her psychological suffocation or patterning? The movement echoes the work of Pina Bausch, and in doing so draws links to the expression of the feminist landscape of emotion and conflict that we continue to work through.
Details
- Year
- 2023
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 7 mins 14 sec
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Vasilisa Forbes
- Producer
- Vasilisa Forbes
- Editor
- Vasilisa Forbes
- Screenwriter
- Vasilisa Forbes
- Director of Photography
- Oscar Oldershaw
- Sound
- Andrej Bako and Joseph Campbell
- Composer
- Alex Stolze
- Principal cast
- Patricia Langa
- Choreographer
- Katya Bourvis
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Vasilisa Forbes
11 Copperfield HouseWolseley street
London
SE1 2BN
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