FULL CREDITS

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Directed by Irene Fiordilino

 

Choreography by Irene Fiordilino in collaboration with the Performers

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Performance by Irene Fiordilino, Prashant More, Ronita Mookerji


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Duration of the film: 21:20

 

Year of production: 2018

 

Film premier:

2018, Laban Theater, London, UK

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Other Screenings:

 2018, ViDEOSKiN Film Festival, 2018, Yukon, Canada

2018, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK

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Synopsis: 

Concrete bones and Metal joints is a dance film edited from the video archive of a site specific exploration which took place in Bangalore (India), inside an in-construction building.

The aim was to combine site-specific exploration with filming - that are respectively the art of touching and the art of seeing - in order to provide a unitary experience.

The starting point was the acknowledgement that - as the Professor of Architecture J. Pallasmaa states - any sensorial channel can be considered an extension of human sense of touch, or even an additional specialisation of the skin: “[all senses] define the interface between the skin and the environment – between the opaque interiority of the body and the exteriority of the world“. 

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An in-construction building is a frame without content, there are surfaces, edges and corners: the usually hidden fundamental aspects, the essential geometry, the row support, the unborn sketches, the naked skin of the outside world are exposed. It is a complex of concrete bones and metal joints provoking curiosity for new interactions and tickling both haptic and kinaesthetic imagination. The architecture of such places interconnects with  the architecture of the body through the porosity of the skin. 

In-construction buildings offer a highly dense emptiness, where the performers are invited to dance not in but with the space, challenging the space intrinsic mobility (its malleability and its resistance) through the encountering of its multi-textural skin with the one of the body.