Enjoy the weather: the film

My training and professional path are anchored in contemporary dance and performing arts. I always seek a multidisciplinary approach to movement, which translates into choreographing the human body, but also choreographing time, sound, light, objects, materials, voice or the path of breath. I see movement and dance as something that transcends the limit of the physical body and it is to this less visible and palpable place that I carry my attention and sensitivity. This is also the common place for the imaginary, therefore I believe that it is beyond physicality that movement and dance connect bodies.
Both cinema and dance are movement and time and it was from the perspective of movement and based on my knowledge and background in dance that I created this film.

"Enjoy the weather: the film" is part of a dance research project and has as its starting point unfolded several creative processes in the form of exercises, conversations, drifts and vocal experiences, which occurred both inside and outside the studio, in the city of Marseille. Research is valued as a place of artistic fruition and knowledge production, in which the process of creation is considered as an ecosystem, a common body, which results from a set of relationships, affectations and inter-human and beyond-human interactions. Focusing on the way we perceive and act in an interconnected, impermanent and interdependent world, this film gives prominence to what connects us such as air, climate, time, landscape and sound. The book "The life of plants" by Emanuele Coccia, which conceives the world as a space of metaphysical interaction, where all living beings share the same breath, and the ideas and practices of Donna Haraway, such as "string figures" and "storytelling", constitute central references of the research.

"Enjoy the weather: the film" moves between the exploratory dimension of a creative process and the performative dimension. We observe and listen to the performers in the present of the experience, with their spontaneous reactions, mistakes and hesitations, and at the same time we see them staging different situations and exercises. These are practices that become performative, where simple and everyday gestures expand into a sensitive and poetic experience.
The film is an audiovisual experimentation that reveals an artisanal approach with an economy of gestures and means, manifesting both an ethical and aesthetic choice. It is a palimpsest film constructed from the superposition of two layers of image, as a way of experiencing the human appearance and disappearance in relationship with the environment. The soundscape, also composed in layers, reveals, as does the image, moments of the process and invites a fusion of temporalities and places. The overlapping of the image layers was materialized in physical form, this means that the image layers were projected overlapped in the studio and the performers created a third layer through their direct action on the image by moving and manipulating light filters and objects. This third layer gives the film a climatic dimension and unveils other narratives in the relationship between bodies and environment. The editing emphasizes the proliferation of readings and possibilities in the relationship between image and sound.
In this film, inspired by Donna Haraway who writes "it matters that stories make worlds and that worlds make stories", creating and telling a story emerges as a way of inciting to explore the powers of fiction, imagination and fabulation to propose other possibilities, other affections, another world, inviting to think with other perspectives.
"Enjoy the weather: the film" is based on encounter, cooperation, transmission and sharing, as guidelines for being together. It proposes that these notions exceed the screen, inviting those who watch to make this experience together.