(non)fiction with (non)actors

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.