Ear Cinema - People Involved

Ear Cinema endeavours to collaborate between artists and professionals from different backgrounds and brings together various disciplines on one final work. The following artists and performers are involved in the current project :

Wajid Yaseen - artistic director/music/sound design - Wajid has been involved in various sound-art related 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

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’

Lizzie Oxby - direction/animation - Lizzie is a film-maker and director with over 14 international film awards and special mentions, including Gold and Silver Mikeldi’s for Animation (Bilbao), British Animation Award and a prestigious nomination for a BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Her films continue to be screened at leading international film festivals and she has been a member of international film jury. Her work has been widely broadcast on Channel 4 Television, Arte, Canal+, CBC, Universal, MTV, amongst others. She’s also exhibited at the Royal Academy and National Gallery in London. Lizzie is represented for commercial work by Sherbet productions and she is also a published illustrator. She is an MA graduate from the Royal College of Art (1996) and also lectures at Wimbledon College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art in London.

John Taylor - visual effects supervisor -

Anshu Poddar - director of photography -

Liv Camden - live action assistant -

Dagmara Bilon - live and filmed performance – extensive background in a wide range of dance forms and involved with performance groups such as Punchdrunk and Psychological Art Circus.

Alice Tatge - live and filmed performance – background in dance, studied at Laban and has been involved with numerous dance pieces and performances including Open House, Chris Crickmay, Patricia Brouilly

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

Ian 'international' Summers - filmed performance

Lina Jungergard & Andrea Meneses Guerrero – filmed performance– Lena and Andrea are part of the Psychological Art Circus (PAC) which began 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 www.psychologicalartcircus.net

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

Michael Zeltner - technical support/programming

Athina Vahla - choreographic overview

Greg Duggan - musician - cello

Alison - musician - piano

Jimmy Rogers - narration/voice over

Jesse Darling - narration/voice over

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

Gail Sneddon – 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

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.

a thankyou to the following people who have been involved in previous projects :

Paul Barritt - animation

Suzanne Andrade - performance

Esme Appleton - performance

Rosie Joyce - support narration

Gail Sneddon - video documentation

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

also a big thanks to Emma Quinn at the ICA and Sabine Unamun at A.C.E