Irene Fiordilino - Scirocco Dance Theatre Company
Homing in on Home
FULL CREDITS
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Directed and performed by Irene Fiordilino and Aidan Good
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Produced by Scirocco Dance Theatre Company
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Original soundtrack by Aidan Good, featuring Piano Music by Teresa Burderi and Drum Music by Guitar Maps Drum Tracks
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Set-design and video-editing by Irene Fiordilino
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Featuring Alfie Good as Spiderman
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Festivals and Awards
Official selection at Breaking Walls (2021, EG)
Official selection at HIFF - HALO International Film Festival (2021, RU)
Official selection at Thessaloniki Cinedance International (2021, GR)
Official selection at London International Screen Dance Festival (2021, UK)
Official selection at Berlin International Art Film Festival (2021, DE)
Honarable mention at Experimental Forum (2021, CA)
Finalist at CAM CAM / Dance for camera (2021, IT
Finalist at )||( - ISAFF (2021, RU)
Official selection at Venice Shorts Monthly Film Festival (2021, CA)
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Synopsis:
Homing in on Home is a black and white film in a black and white cardboard set, which the two artists shot together during the lockdown, between March and July 2020. Together they inhabit and engage within a surreal, Escherian looking room that serves as a container for linguistic clues and gravitational paradoxes.
Throughout the film, the notion of space as a fixed system of coordinates is suspended, letting emerge the perspective- dependent relation amongst bodies and objects. If ‘space’ is a tangle of flexible coordinates, a ‘place’ is where the threads of space tangle with the threads of human life, fostering the development of dramaturgic recurring themes, such as love; playfulness; loneliness; curiosity; and daily living.
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The set - realised from a unitary sheet of cardboard -resembles a 3D pop-up card, with the central element of the stairway sticking out of the walls. Paper architectures is apt to manifest volumes as enclosures full of emptiness, inhabited by nothing more than the light which travels from one space to the other; the pop-up technique in particular implies a negotiation between the amount of paper which one unitary sheet provides, and the definition of complex structures only by their essential constituting elements (e.g the stairway only exists as a tridimensional silhouette). A two-dimensional plane is folded to create volumetric structures which are able to stand, and to articulate enclosures and connective spaces in one unitary architecture.
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