63 mins |
Rated
Exempt
One-off Screening of video performance works by two of Aotearoa’s most boundary-breaking performance and dance artists, Alexa Wilson and Kyah Dove with live music by Motte.
Rituals of Destruction by Alexa Wilson is punk feminist ritualism, To Cut a Mermaid’s Tongue by Kyah Dove is surreal erotic horror. Alexa Wilson and Kyah Dove have worked together on live projects, residencies, and festivals in Berlin, India, and Aotearoa, with Alexa Wilson curating Kyah Dove’s To Cut a Mermaid’s Tongue live in Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa 2020 during the pandemic to a sell-out audience. This work returns to Academy Cinemas as a screen version with live music by Motte. Rituals of Destruction, which never made it to the stage in 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions, pivoted to video in 2022 and has been selected by several international film festivals. With live performance being on and off throughout the pandemic forcing many works onto film, plus performance and video art having a 50-100 year long history, these artists share an evening of video performance works that build on a lineage of filmmaking with radical embodied aesthetics.
Rituals of Destruction:
Official Selection: Amsterdam Short Film Festival
Semifinalist for Tokyo Short Film Festival, San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival, Berlin Shorts Award, Munich Short Film Awards, Roma Shorts, Toronto Film and Script Awards, Paris Woman Festival, Dumbo (NYC) Film Festival, Vienna Indie Short Film Festival - Semi-finalist.
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One-off Screening of video performance works by two of Aotearoa’s most boundary-breaking performance and dance artists, Alexa Wilson and Kyah Dove with live music by Motte.
Rituals of Destruction by Alexa Wilson is punk feminist ritualism, To Cut a Mermaid’s Tongue by Kyah Dove is surreal erotic horror. Alexa Wilson and Kyah Dove have worked together on live projects, residencies, and festivals in Berlin, India, and Aotearoa, with Alexa Wilson curating Kyah Dove’s To Cut a Mermaid’s Tongue live in Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa 2020 during the pandemic to a sell-out audience. This work returns to Academy Cinemas as a screen version with live music by Motte. Rituals of Destruction, which never made it to the stage in 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions, pivoted to video in 2022 and has been selected by several international film festivals. With live performance being on and off throughout the pandemic forcing many works onto film, plus performance and video art having a 50-100 year long history, these artists share an evening of video performance works that build on a lineage of filmmaking with radical embodied aesthetics.
Rituals of Destruction:
Official Selection: Amsterdam Short Film Festival
Semifinalist for Tokyo Short Film Festival, San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival, Berlin Shorts Award, Munich Short Film Awards, Roma Shorts, Toronto Film and Script Awards, Paris Woman Festival, Dumbo (NYC) Film Festival, Vienna Indie Short Film Festival - Semi-finalist.