(non)fiction with (non)actors

Jun 12 — 13, 2024
Field:

Workshop

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Description:

To accompany the screening of Miko Reveresa’s Nowhere Near (2023), he hosted a workshop across two evenings for a group of twelve participants.

On the workshop Revereza says:

“For this workshop, I’m interested in exploring ideas around staging social interactions for film. Not necessarily scripted fiction nor documentary but discovering an elusive ground in-between. What kind of narratives can arise through an evening without the guide of a script? We can approach these exercises like a cinematic game of improvisation and intuition. This workshop is for anyone interested in being in front of the camera as actors / (non)actors. There is no experience required. There are no lines or script. We will explore dialogue and screen performance by way of incorporating our agency as individuals. The participants play themselves, think for themselves and speak from their own thoughts, opinions, experiences and memories. The workshop is an experiment to try new methods of narrative filmmaking set in reality.”

For the workshop, Revereza designed a circuit of experimental tasks in the Grand Luxe Hall informed by the various technical, conceptual, and social roles involved in film production. Expanding expectations around writing and performance, Revereza created conditions for improvisation and emergence, conversation and connection.
Five empty brown chairs line the walls of the Grand Luxe Hall. A small collage sits atop the chair in the middle.
A hand reaches in front of the camera. The flash is bright and reflecting off of 3 yellow pieces of paper that stick to the person's fingers. One paper says DREAM, another says EAVESDROP, and the third one is crumpled with only the letters AMS visible.

Captions:

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.