Fade From View

HD video / 1min58 / 2015

co-creation with Alex Freiheit
 

This performance is based on a close interaction between the protagonist and the camera, which plays an active role in documenting and analyzing each gesture. The protagonist’s wandering leads the audience into the raw space of a basement, the image almost becoming fantastic, with a pictorial quality. The performer addresses the ‘other’ in her native language, Polish, while dialoguing with and hiding behind fragments of masks, second skins. A meeting with otherness, even alienation.

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concept, creation: Nagi Gianni & Alex Freiheit

texts, performance: Alex Freiheit

camera, editing, mask: Nagi Gianni

Lasting Beast

Lasting Beast explores the links between two characters in a human-scale terrarium. Their relationship develops through parades and actions where human affects hybridize to animal behaviors. In this flux of passions and conflicts, the boundaries between the human-animal-vegetable-mineral realms becomes porous and reveal themselves in a strange viscous matter.

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script, directing: Nagi Gianni et Raphaëlle Mueller

camera: Carmen Jaquier

second camera: Raphaëlle Mueller

cast : Lidia Kopina, Valentin Puyau

masks & costumes: Nagi Gianni

set design & lights: Raphaëlle Mueller

tattoos: Frédéric Wyss

editing : Kostas Makrinos

sound design : Thierry Simonot

sound mixing : Charles Menger

color correction : Raphaël Frauenfelder

poster & graphic design : Sonia Dominguez

Body Rising