Ear Cinema

Ear Cinema endeavours to collaborate between artists and professionals from a wide variety of artistic backgrounds and disciplines with the intention of focusing on a cohesive aesthetic for each project. The following artists, performers and technicians are involved in the current project :

 

Wajid Yaseen - artistic director - Wajid has been involved in various experimental music projects (Uniform, 2nd Gen, Dirthole) and has had numerous albums released throughout his career. He has written soundscores for various projects including ‘Spaces Between’ as part of the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall, has collaborated with various dance companies and choreographers (Candoco, Athina Vahla, Gail Sneddon). He has also worked with various live-artists including Franko B and Reza Aramesh and is soon to be working on a new Uniform album with distinguished guest vocalists. He is also behind the destructivist club night ‘Scrapclub‘ and co-runs the experimental record label Needlesoup

 

THE FILM : 

Lizzie Oxby - filmmaker - In 1996, Lizzie graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Animation. Her graduation film THE LACEMAKER won the Gold Mikeldi for Animation at the Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, and her short films have been internationally screened at numerous major film festivals. Her multi-award winning film EXTN.21 was commissioned by Channel 4 Television. Her latest film THE SEAWATCHERS completed in 2007, has begun playing at film festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and Krakow Film Festival. As a director, she has made work for MTV Networks Europe and EMI Records UK. She has also created work for Real World, Readymade-Media and co-directed CATCH YOUR BREATH with Theatre-Rites using video projection and interactive performance for The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. As well her moving image work, she’s also a published illustrator and has been an associate lecturer on the BA (Hons) Design for Performance course at Wimbledon College of Art since 1997 as well as a visiting lecturer on other degree courses. Her work has also been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London (read an interview here)

Alice Kemp – story - Artist/Musician with background of collaborations with ‘Performance Thanatology Research Society’, Hilary Jeffrey and involved in experimental music projects ‘Uniform’ and ‘Germseed’

Krystian Godlewski – performer  – extensive background in theatre and dance working with The Bones Theatre company in London and the Stajnia Pegaza Theatre in Poland

Ian ‘international’ Summers - performer

Lina Jungergard/Andrea Meneses Guerrero – performers – Lena and Andrea began work in March 2004 on a 2-year process using the theme of “Private Theatre” case history of Anna O Featuring aerial, mime, vocal and projections; fire, shadow, and object manipulation. An evolving repertoire of acts were choreographed for a range of sites, situations and contexts in London, Paris & Zagreb. The work culminated in April ‘06 with the company’s first South American invitation and successfully played to audiences of 2000 in Bogotà for the 4th Latin Convention of Circus

John Taylor - visual effects supervisor

Liv Camden - live action assistant

Anshu Poddar - director of photography - Anshu finished her Diploma in Apparel Art & Design in 2000 in Bombay, India. Next followed various artistic endeavours around India, before settling in the UK in 2006. Working in fashion, she has largely collaborated with fashion houses and designers in both, Bombay & New Delhi, India. Chosen among the best of 8 Indian students’ fashion exchange programme in 2001 by Goethe Institute Germany and British Council India, she had a few fashion shows of her own, and some other working for fashion designers across the country. Her next seat was at ELLE, India as a Fashion Stylist. This was followed by her own label of clothing – designing and catering to tailor-made, feel good clothing, working with natural fibres and drawing in inspirations from India’s energetic diversity. Her first experience in film was branching off as a costume designer on an India-UK co-production that brought her down to London. Since 2006, Anshu has written, directed, photographed, designed and edited various student short films as a part of her Masters curriculum at the London Film School. She plans to pursue her filmmaking spurs, and explore the strength of cinema as a storytelling medium.

Adrian Newman - lighting

Robin Harvey - costume design

Natalie O’ Conner - make-up

Randa Ghazal - general assistance and all round excellence

Yara Pascale Fuessel - general assistance and all round excellence

 

LIVE PERFORMANCE : 

Dagmara Bilon - Dagmara is a London based performer, creator and dance movement therapist. She has graduated in Dance Theatre from Laban in 2003. Her performance work derives out of an intimate period dialoguing with collaborators. She is especially passionate about working closely with different types of spaces;spaces inside people,spaces people create whilst living, as well as spaces people don’t occupy. Neglected and derelict spaces. In 2004 Dagmara was Co-founder of Echo Space. The project focussed on transforming a derelict church hall into an arts space. As well as having devised work there she has assisted to curate several arts events hosting a variety of artists. The church has been burnt down in July2005. In 2006 Dagmara graduated in Dance Movement Therapy from Roehampton University. Her clinical practice experiences consist of working in Adult Mental Health and the Elderly with Dementia as well as holding movement sessions for ‘normal neurotics’. In 2007 she engaged in physical training and building a performance structure with Bones Theatre.Currently she is based in Area 10 Project Space,where she continous her processes including movement sessions,research and feedback sessions with the’sawmill collective’.

Alice Tatge - Alice was born in 1981 in Italy. In 1987 she began training in Ballet and in 1993 was introduced to Graham technique. In 2000 she trained in the U.S, A, mainly at Hampshire college, Massachusetts and in New York. In 2004 she completed BA (hons) Dance and Theatre at the Laban centre, London. Her choreographic and performative work deals with the possibility of juxtaposing pure dance and the emotional and physical content that it evokes with other forms of art. Alice has performed with Site-Specific companies such as Punch Drunk Theatrical Experiences and Stacked Wonky Dance Company. She has also performed in NY Norksdans, Norway and toured in Wales for The Welsh National Theatre. Other performance work includes performance projects set in gallery contexts in London, Italy and Iceland. Alice has taught improvisation, Release and Graham technique as well as Ballet in Italy, London and Iceland and has recently joined the Birbeck college staff and Roehampton University as a tutor of contemporary technique.

Agnieszka Kapuscinska - Disillusioned with a traditional way of teaching and awakened by seeing a Japanese Butoh master, Agnieszka left Poland and at the culmination of her training in Butoh dance she was invited to perform at the International Festival for New Butoh Works in Japan, where she worked with a host of Japanese and European artists- D. Yoshimoto, T.Fukuhara, C. Ikeda. Back in England she has completed Drama and Performance Art Degree at Goldsmiths, created several physical theatre pieces: Tawe Pilaku, Passer By, The Song of Passion, The Lady of the Veil…, worked with theatre groups and assisted Rena Mirecka of J.Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre in her work in Italy. Currently Agnieszka continues to work on her live art performance pieces where the personal myths are translated into visual poetry.

 

SOUND AND MUSIC : 

Dave Hunt – ambisonics – freelance sound designer/engineer having worked with a broad range of artists including Michael Nyman, David Toop, Gavin Bryers

Gadi Sassoon – sound design – Gadi is a musician and sound-hacker/artiste, best known via his moniker “Memory9″. He combines his activity as music producer and performer with that of sporadic installation artist and his work has been featured in China, the US and throughout Europe. www.memory9.net

Wajid Yaseen - music

Alison Blunt - musician (violin)

Greg Duggan - musician (cello)

Jimmy Rogers - narration/voice over

Jesse Darling - narration/voice over

Alice Kemp - narration/voice over

 

TECHNICAL : 

Michael Zeltner - technical direction - extensive background in a wide range of projects from Graffitti Research Lab, and part of the Netznetz co-ordination team in Vienna, Austria. http://niij.org/

Gail Sneddon – choreography/documentation – Gail trained at The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, which led her to touring nationally and internationally as a performer for companies such as Nigel Charnock, Athina Vahla and Ersatz. Driven by her desire to apply choreographic techniques to other art forms in 1999 she set up her own company Modusforum, creating performance/ installation based works which concentrated on combining movement with sound and spatial design -www.gailsneddon.com

Ana Godinho De Matos - documentation video edit

Lisa Cazzato - documentation video filming

Pierre D’Alancaisez - photography

Professor Paul & Shari Levy - transport

Irini Papadimitriou – project co-ordination – Irini has previously managed big-scale projects as a freelancer and also in a public institution (V&A). She has also collaborated with the ICA and the Arnolfini previously as well as with the Colchester Arts Centre and the Bluecoat. She has been involved in Ear Cinema since beginning of the project and plays a crucial role in liasing with galleries, funders, press officers, dealing with admin and installation preparations.

Jenny Lindvall & Joel Cahen - stage hands

 

a thankyou to the following people who have been involved in previous Ear Cinema events :

Paul Barritt - animation
Suzanne Andrade - performance
Esme Appleton - performance
Rosie Joyce - support narration
Gail Sneddon - video documentation
Dave Cloud - voiceover/narration
Ana Godinho De Matos - video edit
Marc Broussely - photography
Niccolo Celesti - photography
Julio Periera and Lee Curran - lighting/stage
Matt Swanson - studio recordings
Professor Paul - transport
Roger Carne - stage hand
Jenny Lindvall - stage hand
Sawwa Geourgh - bee keeping

also a big thanks to Emma Quinn and Sabine Unamun