Project Detail

Event for a Stage

Synopsis

Artist Tacita Dean, and actor Stephen Dillane presented a live theatrical happening performed over four nights at the 2014 Sydney Biennial, with two 16mm cameras rolling on each occasion. Dillane changed elements of his appearance each night and, snatching pages from Dean who was seated in the front row, recited Shakespeare, popular texts and personal stories, whilst also announcing adjustments in the camera set-ups and the changing of reels. Dean has returned to this tense scenario and cut into the material according to the systemic logic that emerged over the course of the serialised performance, inscribing changes in time and space, illustrating or actualising a form of deep choreography- LFF
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experiementa Strand

Details

Year: 2015
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 50 mins
Director: Tacita Dean
Producer: Tacita Dean
Screenwriter: Tacita Dean
Director of Photography: Jamie Cairney
Sound: Sound Design: Hayley Forward
Principal cast: Stephen Dillane
Co-commissioned by: Carriageworks and the 19th Biennale of Sydney in Association with ABC RN. With additional support of Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Germany coproduction

Co-commissioned by Carriageworks and the 19th Biennale of Sydney in Association with ABC RN. With additional support of Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris

Frith Street Gallery

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Dale McFarland
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17-18 Golden Square
London
W1F 9JJ

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